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Secret societies solve secrecy through hierarchy, trust through shared transgression, and coordination through eschatological myth.
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Secret societies solve secrecy through hierarchy, trust through shared transgression, and coordination through eschatological myth.
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Jiang says hierarchy divides rich and poor into different worlds: poor people survive through obedience, while rich people maximize outcomes through negotiation.
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Jiang says the rich destabilize hierarchy because they are trained to seek maximum outcomes in a zero-sum hierarchy where only a few can be at the top.
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Secret society hierarchy depends on initiates who do not know the true purpose of the group and middle people who become trusted through participation in degrading rituals.
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Religious hierarchy hides knowledge because priests claim exclusive access, but true gnosis comes by looking into oneself.
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Writing and mythology arise in this account to record temple-economy obligations and to make an unnatural hierarchy look divinely ordained.
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The myth makes bureaucratic inventions such as calendar, celestial order, and temple hierarchy appear divinely ordained rather than priestly inventions.
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The mandate of heaven, in this lecture, means a divine hierarchy where gods control kings and kings direct humans, making obedience appear to be the natural order.
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"Hierarchy. Complementarization. And so there are different, so within secret societies, there's a hierarchy as well, where only the people at the very top..."
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"Does that make sense? And then to solve the problem of coordination, you have the idea of eschatology. Eschatology is just mythology, all right?..."
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"Okay? And it's the case because society is a hierarchy. Okay? And the hierarchy is usually divided between the rich and the poor. Okay?..."
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"But if you're a rich person, the way that you get along with others, the way that you maximize your outcome is by negotiating..."
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"about, you know, like so self -control, resilience, and the ability to look inward and better understand what you're good at. Okay? So it..."
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"Why are there social changes? This looks like a system of equilibrium where because of parenting, people know their place, and people know how..."
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"...is a problem because power, it's a zero -sum game. Okay? Hierarchy is a zero -sum game. So only a few people can be..."
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"...They figured out how to structure the six societies, okay, this hierarchy. Sorry, hierarchy, okay? So these are the top, the landlords. And these..."
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"It's human psychology. Where, because at this point in history, when her reality has collapsed, her soul has left her, okay? And now she's..."
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"The people that are most trusted, because now they're slaves. And that's how secret societies work. And that's why there are so many different..."
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"jesus said the phrases and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge this is noxious noxious means knowledge okay and hidden them they..."
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"remember are jewish priests jewish leaders and they create a hierarchy of religion where they say the people only i know the truth only..."
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