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Jiang reads Ugolino's sons' offer to be eaten as a final act of love toward their father.
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Children
Compound interest makes debt eventually unpayable and produces debt slavery, including the promise that one's children will work for the creditor for free.
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Children give Jiang hope, energy, purpose, and a reason to build a teaching legacy even though he describes himself as extremely pessimistic about the world's direction.
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Jiang says the non-patriarchal system could love all children of the tribe, while patriarchy narrows love to one’s own children.
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Jiang says he would probably go to Yale again because poor people trying to move ahead have few alternatives, but he refuses to send his children into that traumatic environment.
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Schools are first and foremost designed to control children, not educate them.
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Compound interest makes debt eventually unpayable and produces debt slavery, including the promise that one's children will work for the creditor for free.
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Against the modern gene-first model, Jiang says Mother Goddess religion made all children communal responsibilities because all children belonged to the same sacred family.
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Jiang argues that when fatherhood is not exclusive or known, responsibility for children spreads across the whole community.
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"Nailing up the door of that appalling tower, without a word I looked into the faces of my sons. I did not weep, within..."
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"Okay, alright, so, um, the count, he's hungry, he knows he's at fault for condemning his entire family to death. But he cannot bring..."
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"...asked myself yesterday okay so so the question is what if children when things are getting worse and worse and the answer is because..."
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"kids I love having children but also my children fill me with hope and energy and power to fight for a better world I..."
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"...about the French missionary. You French people love only your own children. But we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay? So..."
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"So as you say, Yale gives you so many negative emotions, so will you still go there if you got a second chance?"
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"Okay. So that's a really good question. Would I go there if I had a second chance? And the answer is probably, okay? And..."
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"man's handiwork and all as well if you take children out of school you have to play by themselves whatever they want guess what..."
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"...become, you become my slave. Okay? You promise me that your children will work for, work for me for free. Okay? And so, debt..."
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"...I marry someone, only if I'm sure that the offspring, the children, are mine, will I work hard to ensure that the children are..."
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"Okay? That's why men want to have as many wives and children as possible, and women want to find the wealthiest husband. But, before..."
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"...you have no sense. You French people love only your own children but we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay? You..."
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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