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A condition in which a person believes no one cares whether they live or die and that their death does not affect the community.
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disconnection
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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For Jiang, Catholic justification by works produces hypocrisy, hierarchy produces corruption, and orthodoxy produces disconnection from the human need to access God.
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In response to a student prompt, Jiang says Protestant logic can treat suicide less as sin than as weakness or evidence of insufficient faith, while Durkheim treats suicide as disconnection from community.
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Because capitalism cannot be defeated without catastrophic consequences, Jiang says people facing capitalist disconnection will choose theocracy as a natural response.
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"You're not allowed to question it, you're not allowed to interpret it, you must memorize it. And what maintains the orthodoxy is the idea..."
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"...corruption and abuses. Okay? The problem of orthodoxy is it creates disconnection. All right? And the idea here is that ever since the dawn..."
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"And again, this idea that we learned previously, we're combining it, and we are going to use these ideas to understand the future development,..."
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"...us to remember is that suicide, it's also a feeling of disconnection. It's a belief that no one cares if you die or not...."
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"...almost a natural outcome of capitalism because of the problem of disconnection, okay? But are you going to be able to defeat capitalism ever?..."
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"...long -term memory, but it could also mean that there's a disconnection between his long -term memory and his consciousness, right?"
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"Okay? And because of these three problems—disconnection, corruption, hypocrisy—there's always been dissent, there's always been rebellion against the Catholic Church in Europe. Remember last..."
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"...have there been more depression, anxiety, more suicides, more feeling of disconnection, okay? So, think about this. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's just..."
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"...right. Why do you have suicide? Suicide is the result of disconnection. We do not think we are valuable in the world. We think..."
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"...So in other words, these four concepts are interconnected, all right? Disconnection leads to suicide. We have disconnection because of anxiety. But anxiety is..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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