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One of the three political problems Jiang says rulers need solved: why a people or order is distinct from others.
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Cultural differentiation
One of the three political problems Jiang says rulers need solved: why a people or order is distinct from others.
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Under Augustine's model, the Catholic Church offers rulers legitimacy, cultural cohesion, and cultural differentiation, allowing it to remain central across later power shifts.
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The third function is cultural differentiation: to know who one is, a group must also know who it is not.
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"...unite the people behind a common ideology? The third problem was cultural differentiation. Why are you different from other people, okay? And what the..."
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"...the second function. The third function is that, the idea of cultural differentiation. To know who you are, you must also know who you..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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