His alternative says humans were religious, artistic, and scientifically capable from the beginning, so civilization did not create those capacities.
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"And that is the story of civilization that you are taught in school and that most mainstream academics understand. Today I want to propose..."
"We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing..."
"...was founded by the Jews, that its divine author in his human capacity was a descendant of King David. Okay."
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