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Jiang says immigration is not natural for most people because the natural impulse is to help one's birth community grow, not abandon it for a better community.
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Belonging
Art is presented as a social technology for combining imagination into society, belonging, and community.
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Art is presented as a social technology for combining imagination into society, belonging, and community.
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Jiang says the concept of an individual independent of family, community, and world is a recent invention; exile was formerly worse than death because belonging was selfhood.
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"Okay. That's a great question. And I'm sure everyone's familiar with this question, which is like, what can we do about this situation? Well,..."
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"And they're not going to be able to conform to the community. Okay? And historically, these people have been killed by the communities. And..."
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"...trying to combine our imagination together to create society, to create belonging, to create community. Okay? Does that make sense? Yeah? Sorry."
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"Okay. Does that answer your question? Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay. All right. And even today, we still do this. Okay? So let's see examples...."
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"Yeah. So, you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard. Okay? But the individual, the concept of individual..."
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"Exactly. Banishment. Exile. Not death. Right? And today, if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before,..."
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"...So there's actually no national loyalty. They don't see themselves as belonging to a certain group of people, a certain nation. They see themselves..."
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"...no great ideas, okay? Ideas emerge from community, from culture, from belonging, okay? So think of Homer or Dante. Or even the Yahwehs, okay?..."
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"...caught in the Lord as a slave is a free person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was freed when caught is a..."
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"So we must abandon all materialistic belongings. Okay? Guess what, guys? There are also other groups within these different groups, and all three groups..."
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"...to be the one to see it duly carried out. Youths belonging to the noblest families were standing tied to the post, but all..."
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"...able to do that because they're able to put all the belongings into a wagon and move from place to place okay does that..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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