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Organized religion creates artificial differences among faiths so religious authorities can exploit people and justify their own role.
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Exploitation
The lecture's inversion sequence moves from animistic egalitarianism to mother goddess fertility, then to male sky-god domination, exploitation of earth and people, hereditary kingship, civil war, and bureaucratic takeover.
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diagnosis
When capital enters leadership, leaders stop seeking reputation and begin treating people as commodities, aligning with other leaders as cartels or elites.
model
The lecture's inversion sequence moves from animistic egalitarianism to mother goddess fertility, then to male sky-god domination, exploitation of earth and people, hereditary kingship, civil war, and bureaucratic takeover.
diagnosis
Marduk's new order proclaims values of struggle, exploitation, toil, control, and irrigation, replacing a mother-goddess religion of balance and harmony.
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The state does not care about personal history, aspirations, or individuality; it classifies people into administratively useful categories it can exploit.
definition
Rent seeking means exploiting a power position to extract wealth from others, and the professional managerial class turns to rent seeking and worker exploitation when the corporation is in trouble.
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"Okay? So the idea is that religion is great. Okay? I'm a big supporter of religion. But organized religion is problematic. Because organized religion..."
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"So at first, this is good. Okay? Now you're expanding the system. And then you reach a point of its maximum growth. But then..."
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"Right? So you care about the feelings of others. Once capital enters the equation... Then the way that the leader sees you is different...."
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"If you force them, they will revolt against you. So the system must collapse. Okay? So, the argument I'm trying to make to you..."
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"Okay, good, all right. So let's do the PPT. All right, so in this class, I want to talk about how, because of civilization..."
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"And then with agriculture, you had the mother goddess civilization, because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess, is able to give you more..."
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"What happen, what happened is that the bureaucrats will collude together to steal power from the king. Okay, the servant rules the king, okay?..."
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"...building canals, by building farms. So it's a constant process of exploitation. Not only are you exploiting nature, the mother goddess, but you're also..."
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"...order, but he's also proclaiming new values. New values of struggle, exploitation, toil. Right? Before, the mother goddess was a religion of balance and..."
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"it's an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work..."
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"Hi, my name is Banker, and I grew up in Beijing. And, I came to Moonshot, this school, in 2024, last year, and..."
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"Okay, wrong. Wrong, okay? That's not the correct answer. The right answer is, you're a teenage boy."
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