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Jiang calls the death-centered elite pursuit of afterlife wealth a nihilistic religious belief because it treats death, not life, as the path to becoming like God.
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Elite Corruption
Jiang calls the death-centered elite pursuit of afterlife wealth a nihilistic religious belief because it treats death, not life, as the path to becoming like God.
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"But if you're not, then you become poor. Okay? So inequality is a huge issue. But you also have a problem of corruption, where..."
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"So basically what Egypt was doing during the pyramid economy was taking all its grain, all its resources, and then selling it overseas in..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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