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Jiang says watching tragedy reveals a fundamental truth about human nature: all humans are going to be tragic.
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Human nature
The released robber story is interpreted as a lesson that good animals become loyal when treated well.
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The released robber story is interpreted as a lesson that good animals become loyal when treated well.
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He says becoming rich requires breaking man-made laws, while staying rich requires meanness and a low view of human nature.
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Jiang defines religion here as the human attempt to answer three questions: where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going.
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Survival of the fittest is not Jiang's account of historical human organization; he says humans are usually compassionate toward the ill, elderly, and weak.
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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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He closes by stating the core reversal: humans are not socialized into empathy; they are born into empathy and socialized out of it.
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The closing thesis is that civilizations, cities, and people can be killed, but the desire for unity of will cannot be destroyed because it is fundamental to being human.
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"...when you observe a tragedy you're observing a fundamental truth about human nature okay which is that we're all going to be tragic the..."
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"Once while the sultan was visiting a slave gallery with his vizier, he asked each slave about his crime. All said they were innocent..."
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"Okay, so again, he's teaching his followers how to conquer the world. And so, and one thing that you need to understand is, yes,..."
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"So if you're very wealthy and you're nice to people, they'll think you're stupid and naive, and they'll plot against you. Okay? That's the..."
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"the truth of the matter is that from most of human history we had three goals or three concerns the first is that we..."
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"have as many children as possible and that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy a lot of women start to die okay..."
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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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"Severely, breaking that emotional connection. And once the emotional connection is broken, remember, empathy, we crave empathy. We crave emotions more than we crave..."
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"And the fact that the Germans fought so bravely and fought to the very bitter end. I mean, it just shows you the power..."
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"What do we do now? We exist to serve God. God is invincible. But the Spanish just killed them. Which means what? Which means..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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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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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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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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