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A commodity or instrument that is universal, stores value, and is mobile.
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capital
A commodity or instrument that is universal, stores value, and is mobile.
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Glossary
Used in the Piketty analogy as financial wealth that grows faster than manufacturing and can become speculative fiction.
prediction
Global war and chaos will transfer wealth from the young to the old because capital can foresee, distribute, and exploit risk.
definition
Jiang defines wealth as consciousness and attention: a vase becomes valuable when focused consciousness is stored in it, and money or capital extracts and stores that consciousness as wealth.
model
The Thirty Years' War is used as the crisis that makes European merchants ask how wealth can be made secure against armies, conquest, and religious conflict.
definition
Britain is presented as the creator of the offshore financial center: a legal and financial shelter that does not care where money comes from.
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Capital is best understood as a mechanism for extracting human attention and focus, not merely as money or stored wealth.
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Making capital more abstract culminates in money as God: a symbol that is both nothing and everything and can consume an entire life.
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War, patriarchy, property, and capital are interlinked Bronze Age institutions that produce slavery, corruption, violence, and the prophetic need to remember the Monad.
diagnosis
Jiang estimates Zarathustra between 2000 and 1000 BCE and suspects the late Bronze Age because mature capital had produced slavery, debt, corruption, misery, and desire for another voice.
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"...the end of the 19th century, you have all this transnational capital coming into America through Wall Street and through manufacturing, the economy. They..."
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"...in a time of chaos, in a time of conflict, okay, capital always triumphs. Okay? And the reason why is that capital is able..."
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"...a minority of the old, the old hierarchy have all the capital and the young have nothing. Okay? So it's the young who will..."
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"So another way of saying this is that reality is a... collective conscious, which is really a hallucination, okay? So there's certain things about..."
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"...wealth in this in this world and it's really money or capital that extracts and stores our consciousness and turns it into wealth alright..."
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"the wealthiest nation in the world per capita you have this burgeoning of the middle class and so what happens now is that the..."
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"in europe right before up until the world war one okay and so this creates anxiety in europe because if there's all this war..."
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"Okay? The entire purpose of parliament and the courts, okay, the judicial system, is to ensure that your private property is protected, no matter..."
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"Okay? Their legal system, their financial system, will help protect this money. Also, Switzerland. Okay? So, Switzerland is a classic example. But England create..."
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"Today we discuss the idea of capital. Now, you may have learned in economics class that capital means money or wealth. What I want..."
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"...we've learned over the centuries. The second trick is to make capital more abstract, okay? So the abstraction of capital. So let's use an..."
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"will show you, the great innovation of the past hundred years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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