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Movies, the internet, social media, school, and ChatGPT are described as technologies or institutions created to enslave the mind by making this reality seem like the only reality.
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Enslavement
The speech creates two possibilities: God is testing Eve so she may grow in virtue and knowledge, or God is enslaving her because he fears humans becoming divine.
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Key Notes
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He reads Babylon's divine construction as a political trap: if the city is built by and for the gods, residents are taught that their enslavement is their proper home.
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The speech creates two possibilities: God is testing Eve so she may grow in virtue and knowledge, or God is enslaving her because he fears humans becoming divine.
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Jiang reverses the apparent agency story: the worldview that says humans lack control inspires excellence, while the worldview that says humans control everything enslaves them.
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"...it should enslave you. Okay? All of human history is about enslavement. Okay? That's what progress is. You think that, oh my god, I..."
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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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"...want to be here even though being in Babylon means your enslavement. Okay? Let us make a shrine of great renown. Your chamber will..."
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"shrine to house a pedestal wherein we may repose when we finish the work. When Marduk heard this, he beamed as brightly as the..."
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"Why but to awe, why but to keep ye low and ignorant, his worshipers? He knows that in the day ye eat, therefore, your..."
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"So, in the first system, even though it sounds like we have no control, we have no agency, but it inspires us to live..."
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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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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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