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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang presents Catalhoyuk as a large Turkish settlement around 7500 BCE, with roughly 8,000 people at its height and an egalitarian structure without a separate worship place or government.
"...that all the houses were the same. It was a very egalitarian society. Everyone was the same. And what's even more interesting is that..."
"...to god okay love is about equality it's about um being egalitarian and treating others with respect and trusting others and the ego the..."
"...look at the Harappan civilization, the Indus Valley civilization, extremely peaceful, egalitarian, and spiritual. And so we're able to create any civilization that we..."
"...important. The first and most important thing is he proposes an egalitarian society where men and women are all equal."
"...are called the brothers and the sisters. So it's a very egalitarian, flat hierarchy where there's no, it's not a triangle like most secret..."
"So the Frank is, are an extremely egalitarian people where there's also women empowerment, okay? Does it make sense? All right. Can you read..."
"...with the God directly through the Bible, okay? Second idea is egalitarian, where there is no longer any hierarchy. You can communicate with God..."
"...So this causes confusion, okay? Second problem is the idea of egalitarian."
"...this the reason why is in this society it is very egalitarian and for war purposes they would they would elect a war leader..."
"...make himself king by making Rome a much more equal and egalitarian place. And so, they killed him. And this led to more civil..."
"...a place like Holland, you go and you think it's very egalitarian. But what's really interesting is that"
"...a piece ofclazani even though it's not a part of Pakistan. egalitarian and artistic civilization but it's still brought into this global system why..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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