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Jiang says prehistoric people had symbolic capacity and could have written, but chose not to because writing was viewed as a corruption of divine song and communal experience.
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Jiang says prehistoric people had symbolic capacity and could have written, but chose not to because writing was viewed as a corruption of divine song and communal experience.
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"We're not doing this out of our own will, we are only a portal or a mechanism or a channel for the divine to..."
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"When you speak, you're challenging the divine. So when you are writing something down, you're actually counterfeiting the divine, okay? Also remember that for..."
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"It was a corruption of the natural world, okay? All right? Does that make sense? Okay. So this is a, these are all the..."
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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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