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The pursuit of curiosity, modeled through listening to people with genuine interest.
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The pursuit of curiosity, modeled through listening to people with genuine interest.
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Jiang says the first modern myth is that humans are driven by material desire; his counterclaim is that humans are fundamentally religious-spiritual beings who want to create, love, connect, differentiate, and explore.
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Industrial capitalism required several contingent religious and geopolitical revolutions rather than a simple technological law of history.
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China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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War with the Ottoman Empire and the age of exploration pushed European science because conquest required navigation tools, compasses, and astrolabes.
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He says Augustine turns curiosity and exploration from human goods into signs of evil that can only lead to sin.
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Jiang links this doctrine of passivity and obedience to the beginning of the Dark Ages because it prevents questioning, exploration, and social innovation.
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Jiang argues that school teaches the opposite of exploration by telling students not to explore and to do what the teacher says.
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Jiang argues that Talese's mother handled demanding wealthy clients by becoming their friend, which required listening rather than talking.
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"Why is there a helicopter? Why is there a cat? Okay? Well, that's how we truly are. Okay? We don't have a concept of..."
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"They're not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So, why do we want... So, what do we..."
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"be different we want we want to be creative the third thing is we are curious and want to explore and that's what explains..."
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"Same thing with the Cultural Revolution where the Cultural Revolution removed the old elite, the bureaucrats. So in the 1980s when China opened up,..."
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"Okay? The Holy Trinity is the weirdest idea in human history. The Holy Trinity is this. God is nothing and everything. Okay? And what..."
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"...believe they are the elect. Okay? And then, the age of exploration where the old world, Europe could go and create new markets and..."
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"...over to Europe, the compass will bring in the age of exploration, right? It will allow Europe to conquer the entire world. The age..."
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"It radically transformed the entire fabric of European society. And because people are now able to read and write, it gives rise to the..."
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"...And the last idea that's driving science is the age of exploration and conquest. As Europe is trying to expand outwards, if they're going..."
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"...is that's exactly the problem. Curiosity can only lead to evil. Exploration can only lead to sin. That's why we commit sin, because we..."
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"anything God knows everything God has a plan just obey the will of God and the will of God means doing nothing and in..."
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"And her job was to deal with them. But it's actually very hard to deal with rich people. They can be very demanding. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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A source-grounded reading of literary journalism as a two-part discipline: exploration begins when a researcher can listen until a stranger becomes a friend; reflection begins when craft becomes patient pursuit of perfection.
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