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He rejects the idea that peace is temporary and tied only to leadership changes, arguing the conflict is also driven by structural internal tensions and elite competition.
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Elite
When elites become hereditary, religion changes from creative energy into bureaucracy: fixed rules, hierarchy, and obedience.
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When elites become hereditary, religion changes from creative energy into bureaucracy: fixed rules, hierarchy, and obedience.
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Jiang leaves the identity of the enslaving powers indeterminate, saying they could be elites, powers that be, or demons, but their function is to make movies, the internet, and social media feel real.
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He defines transhumanism as the capacity to live forever, with elite access to longevity, organ transplants, stem cells, gene therapy, blood transfusion, replacement bodies, beauty, and pleasure.
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Jiang identifies the dominant school story of civilization as a Marxist-developmental sequence from agriculture and surplus to elites, cities, writing, property, religion, arts, science, war, slavery, and debt.
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Jiang says writing was invented, in this political sense, to brainwash people out of freedom and independence into the social order preferred by elites.
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In the corporation metaphor, elite families are owners, the people are workers who generate wealth, and the middle class or PMC are managers.
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Egypt's elites squandered national wealth by exporting resources to acquire grave metals and jewelry for the afterlife rather than building a prosperous living nation.
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"We have seven more classes left in the semester and what I want to do in this last seven classes is Look at the..."
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"...within these countries. So before we looked at the idea of elite overduck overproduction hmm, and so the idea is that the elite are..."
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"Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the..."
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"But over time, what happens is that the elite, okay, become hereditary. The game becomes how do I, the elite, pass on my privileges..."
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"...people? Well, we don't know. Okay? You can say they're the elite."
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"They're the powers that be. You can also say they're demons. We don't know. Okay? But they're interested in fooling us into believing that..."
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"I don't want that crap. I want to enjoy my life, okay? And the third thing is, this world cannot have been created by..."
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"You have gene therapy. You have blood transfusion. You have replacement bodies, okay? You will be 20 years old forever. You have great sex...."
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"...now you have people who don't have to work okay an elite and as such they can engage in activities that improve the well..."
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"...can use more farmland okay you can now have a hereditary elite and so at the time we But these people can focus their..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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"...and religion. And it's their nexus, their combination that allows the elite to control everyone else. Okay? So, from this nexus. Okay? They will..."
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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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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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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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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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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