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The cyclical model understands historical development through repeating patterns such as seasons, lives, and Chinese dynastic rise and decline.
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Cycle
In the cyclical political model, people, nobility, and king each hold a different power, and regime form changes as two factions ally against the third.
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In the cyclical political model, people, nobility, and king each hold a different power, and regime form changes as two factions ally against the third.
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Jiang answers that the cycle cannot be avoided in today's society and that it is impossible to build a stable society over a long period of time.
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Jiang says mother nature or the mother goddess gives life to everything, making trees, animals, and humans equal children within a shared cycle.
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Early religion is contrasted with modern hierarchy through the image of a river or cycle: no top, no bottom, only roles and flow.
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"...historical development. Okay, so the first is the idea of a cycle or a circle. And this makes sense, right? Because this mirrors what..."
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"...creates a new dynasty. So Chinese history is almost a continuous cycle of dynastic rise and decline. Okay, now, in the Western context, there's..."
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"Okay? so these are the three major forces or factions in a society and these three factions are always in conflict and what happens..."
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"...they do they create an Arlarchy okay you see how the cycle works the cycle goes on and on and on these three factions..."
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"...good question. Thank you. Excuse me? Oh, can you avoid this cycle, in today's society? Okay. That's a good question. And the answer is..."
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"go back into the spirit world right so now we have to summon them back from the spirit world into our world okay does..."
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"...of them understand so in other words the world is a cycle it's a circle and each person each animal has a part to..."
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"...a river. Okay? We're all part of the river. It's a cycle. It just goes in circles. And there's no differentiation or there's no..."
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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