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Jiang challenges the idea of modern superiority by asking for a contemporary achievement that is wonderful and spectacular enough to rival the achievements under discussion.
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Comparison
Jiang argues that people cannot think objectively in absolute terms and instead compare and contrast relative position.
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Jiang argues that people cannot think objectively in absolute terms and instead compare and contrast relative position.
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"any more questions so i do i do agree that we cannot be promised nowadays and i'll definitely die if you just put me..."
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"Can you tell me what we do today that is so wonderful and spectacular?"
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"Yeah, what do we do today that's so wonderful and spectacular and you think is amazing?"
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"Give me an example of something that we do today that is spectacular and wonderful."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. That's a great question, okay? So the argument against this is, like, Trump is a terrible economic leader...."
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"But I told you this one is $50, this one is $10. You know this has to be better. Do you understand? So people's..."
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"...you can see, the Dutch are very energetic. So as a comparison, let's compare it to the Spanish Empire. Okay? So at this point..."
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"...on the eastern seaboard. That's a lot of people. Okay? In comparison, the French, who occupy actually most of the territory in North America,..."
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"...to divide and conquer. All right? So let's just do a comparison of the Tang and the Song. As you can see, what's really..."
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"So an analogy or a comparison is the story of McDonald's. McDonald's. You guys all know McDonald's, right? Well, guess what? In the 1950s,..."
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"...guys guess how much the United States produces every month in comparison? Guess, guess the number. Do you hear me? 100,000? 2,000, okay? Do..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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