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If everyone imagines something to be true at the same time, it becomes true.
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Collective Belief
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Jiang defines religion as collective belief or worldview that answers where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going; it does not require temples.
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The religious imagination can make an imagined world more true, more powerful, and more real than the visible world when many people imagine it together.
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"Okay? All right. Another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean. Think of an ocean. Right? And all these pebbles are..."
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"So I was wondering, so the Bambarians, the steppes, are they capable of developing religions? Because they're all conquering all around the world, so..."
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"Right. So religions don't require temples. Religion is just collective belief. So as I say, as I keep on saying in this class, all..."
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"Yeah, this is not studying, okay? This is not serious academic work. This is playing. It has no significance, no meaning, right? So what..."
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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 why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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