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Jiang defines the ritual world as a script: living well means following inherited practices that respect the world's traditions and keep balance with the environment.
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Ordinary humans are programmable to a degree because settings activate different identities and behaviors: student, child, friend, employee.
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Ordinary humans are programmable to a degree because settings activate different identities and behaviors: student, child, friend, employee.
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The baby-boomer ethos of achievement and accumulation is destroying the environment, the economy, and ultimately their children.
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Oral tradition is not simple storytelling; the room, audience, light, darkness, acoustics, and communal participation change each telling and make each version unique.
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Jiang contrasts the IVC with steppe peoples whose harsh grassland environment forced cattle ranching, raiding, and eventually aggressive expansionist opportunism.
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"...you're connected to heaven on earth, and you're connected to the environment around you. Everything that you do impacts the environment. The environment also..."
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"history, something that we've all been doing for a long time, and it's something that we've understood and we've appreciated. Then the question then..."
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"what this means is that while all this is happening, there are different scents for different identities. Okay? So, for example, with Ra, it..."
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"behavior certain actions in us okay so we're all programmable with a certain degree okay so to better understand this let me give you..."
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"...my my worth and their greed their selfishness is destroying the environment it's destroying the economy and ultimately it's going to kill their children..."
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"Right? So this is the oral tradition in contrast with literary culture and visual culture. The oral tradition is extremely complex. We tend to..."
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"Some important things to know about this. First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about..."
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"...grasslands, because it is such a poor and rugged and unforgiving environment, they're forced to be cattle ranchers. They're forced to engage in cattle..."
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"They'll kill people if that's what benefits them. They are not that moral. Okay? They're very optimistic, opportunistic. And, and as, and I remember,..."
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"...them forever chemicals because they don't break down not in the environment not on your body not ever pifas are what make the water..."
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"...stress just means that you drink as much water as the environment produces. Okay?"
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"...that you are drinking more water, using more water than the environment actually produces. Okay? So, you're putting stress on the environment. So, 20..."
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