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Jiang's dynastic cycle moves from mother-goddess priestess and consort to hereditary elite, rebellious prince/warlord, foreign mercenary general, and new king.
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Dynastic Cycle
Jiang's dynastic cycle moves from mother-goddess priestess and consort to hereditary elite, rebellious prince/warlord, foreign mercenary general, and new king.
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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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"...stories. To legitimize the king. Alright. So again this follows the dynastic cycle. Okay? So in the beginning the high priestess who represents the..."
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"I'm going to become a warlord. I'm going to overthrow the queen and the king. Okay? And so he slays the consort and marries..."
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"And in the past, there have been two main models for understanding historical development. Okay, so the first is the idea of a cycle..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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