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Jiang's phrase for seeing disability, marginality, or outsider status as a source of wisdom, intuition, and connection rather than defect.
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Difference as gift from God
Jiang's phrase for seeing disability, marginality, or outsider status as a source of wisdom, intuition, and connection rather than defect.
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"But back then, they saw difference and diversity as gifts from God. Right? So, if you're a dwarf, it meant you had something special..."
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"So, if you were different, if you were deformed, if you were ill, they saw you as blessed rather than cursed. And that's what..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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