Jiang's opening thesis is that Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank, whether or not their names remain publicly salient, left ideas embedded inside modernity and therefore form the hidden connective tissue behind those modern mysteries.
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Key Notes
Jiang says Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank still matter because their ideas remain embedded in modernity even if the names themselves no longer resonate publicly.
Greg frames the recurring research problem as hidden continuity: powerful orders or ideologies may appear to die out publicly while passing themselves forward in darker, less visible forms.
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"Neuroscience is very much based on Freud's understanding of how the brain works. So how is it that this man with his strange ideas,..."
"all of these ideas, communism, Freud, and his psychology, occult symbolism throughout the world, you really need to look at Sabatini and Frankis. Because..."
"Well, that is a great opening pitch for sure. And that seems to be the kind of gray area that so many things that..."
"Did this ideology really go away? Or is it still around in secret? And that's a hard thing to find a smoking gun for..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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