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Jiang calls the death-centered elite pursuit of afterlife wealth a nihilistic religious belief because it treats death, not life, as the path to becoming like God.
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Grave Goods
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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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"But if you're not, then you become poor. Okay? So inequality is a huge issue. But you also have a problem of corruption, where..."
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"So basically what Egypt was doing during the pyramid economy was taking all its grain, all its resources, and then selling it overseas in..."
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"...mountains, and the Reno and the coast, who've lost the truth's grave good, and lost the good of gentle living too. Those lands are..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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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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