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Humans solve the cosmic problem because embodiment gives them free will, pain, death, sin, risk, creativity, redemption, and self-forgiveness.
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Creativity
Humans solve the cosmic problem because embodiment gives them free will, pain, death, sin, risk, creativity, redemption, and self-forgiveness.
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Greek creativity has an Apollonian rational mode and a Bacchic emotional mode, but Jiang says Virgil treats the Bacchic aspect as the worst emotion because it leads into madness.
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Warring-states periods are the height of creativity because open competition forces innovation; Jiang names Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Greek classical culture as examples.
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In the World Game, the team with everything initially wins, but the team with nothing often becomes most creative because scarcity forces energy, openness, cohesion, and resourcefulness.
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Resources are not necessary for success because poor players can cheat, steal, beg, trade, work for free, and become creative under pressure.
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Jiang says his own parenting in China emphasizes freedom, communication, family democracy, and stories rather than scheduled achievement activities, and that this makes his family socially abnormal in that environment.
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Jiang says societies rise and fall so creativity can exist, comparing social death to parents dying so children can become independent.
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He argues that destruction, war, and death should not be treated only as negative but as part of human experience that requires response and can lead to new creative civilizations.
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"the universe cannot expand it cannot renew itself we cannot rejuvenate so to solve this problem what god does is create us okay humans..."
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"...certain things to notice okay um bacchus is the god of creativity of um god of creativity for the greeks so there's actually two..."
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"...is that the warring states period is a time of maximum creativity for a civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co..."
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"Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated,..."
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"innovations happen when it happened during the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay..."
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"the end of the day, you look at who are the wealthiest countries in the world, what happens is, well, the United States becomes..."
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"...has nothing, so they're forced to be creative. Poverty leads to creativity. Okay? Another thing in this is that if I were to surmise..."
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"I keep on telling you guys, you don't need resources. You can cheat. You can steal. You can beg. Alright? Okay? Does that make..."
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"Okay? Like, if you just go back to the World Game, whichever team starts off with the least resources are often the most creative..."
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"Okay? Does it make sense, guys? Because if you do it another way, okay? If you choose to be a friend to your child...."
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"Okay? We don't have our kids do lots of activities. We don't send our kids to math class. We don't send our kids to..."
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"I've spent many decades researching the best education possible. And so that's why... That's why we raise our children in this way. And guess..."
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