The social traits Jiang says help explain why poor Macedon could become militarily dangerous.
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hungry, united, and obedient
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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"...united right they're not divided they're united and what else they're obedient right they listen"
"to what the government tells them to do and last thing is they're hungry they will work very hard for very little okay you..."
"...time. Okay, does that make sense? Because the people are hungry, united, and obedient. All right, any questions so far about this? Okay, so..."
"...it forces something deeper right why are the demons being so obedient right why the demons lowering themselves and and so what what do..."
"...he's not trying to push self -determination he's saying okay be obedient but don't be obedient to the church be obedient to god and..."
"Yes? She is content because she has to be absolutely obedient to God. And God says she has to be content here, so she..."
"...that many um jews the jews needs just need to be obedient to god and they need to um be united that's what matters..."
"...wants gone. Because they're too independently minded. Trump just wants everyone obedient to him. And so I think that this administration, this Trump administration,..."
"...It's about alchemy, human perfection, trying to turn you into an obedient robot that can be programmed. Okay? Does that make sense? But it's..."
"...you're an empire and you want a vassal state to be obedient to you, what you did was you took the children elite and..."
"...the way we want them to vote the people aren't really obedient okay so the solution to this is quite a technocracy where you..."
"...hard in the long term to enslave humans and make humans obedient. Also, data centers. Okay? Data centers. What's the problem with data centers?..."
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