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Jiang's direct name for the real function of school: replacing lived learning with imposed belief and obedience.
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brainwashing
Jiang's direct name for the real function of school: replacing lived learning with imposed belief and obedience.
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The Aeneid is propaganda and brainwashing because memorizing the poem makes the student travel Aeneas's path from human feeling to robotic obedience.
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Freedom begins when one accepts enslavement and refuses it, but most people cannot do this because they have been brainwashed to treat visible reality as real.
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Jiang says bureaucratic edits make stories less interesting but more effective at controlling thought, turning lively legends into teachable, brainwashing classics.
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Jiang says writing was invented, in this political sense, to brainwash people out of freedom and independence into the social order preferred by elites.
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Jiang links learned helplessness and positive psychology through Martin Seligman and provocatively calls school-taught positive psychology brainwashing.
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MK Ultra is presented as a 1950s and 1960s CIA program to test drugs, hypnosis, interrogation, and brainwashing on innocent citizens and through foreign intelligence settings.
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Jiang distinguishes physical limitation from social scarcity: money is not scarce because it is only a number that can be printed in unlimited quantity.
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School is defined not as a place that teaches knowledge but as an institution that brainwashes students.
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"...Because it is a piece of propaganda. It's a piece of brainwashing, indoctrination, where you read it and you go on the same journey..."
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"That's what my mother really wants. You've been tricked. Okay. That's how the world works. So, it's really easy. Just say to yourself I'm..."
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"You fear being laughed at. That's why you want money. That's what you wanna do while in school. Once you accept that, then you..."
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"say you know what we don't care what you do as long as you give us money. Okay? That's the first version. Second version..."
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"But before you can imagine that they were interesting. But the bureaucrats took them and changed them into boring stories that they can now..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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"...Sigelman. Okay? So positive psychology that you're learning in school is brainwashing."
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"to get in trouble okay so you shouldn't be showing off or anything okay we have traces of these here they're doing this to..."
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"...was a program designed to test the effects of drugs and brainwashing on innocent American citizens especially children so some of the documents are..."
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"So we don't have limited resources, we have scarcity. Okay. Right? So that is the common answer, scarcity. We have poverty because of scarcity...."
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"You all believe money is scarce. Right? Okay. I just spent the past 10, 20 minutes explaining to you. It's not scarce. It's infinite...."
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"And that teacher would teach you. And then you would learn it, right? So school is not a place. It's not a place to..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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