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For Jiang, the desire to patent, get credit, and monetize an idea is part of why modern ideas become weak.
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Ideas
Jiang proposes Geist as the answer to why distant religions converge: ideas are inspired through communication with the Geist, rather than simply produced by brain synapses.
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Jiang proposes Geist as the answer to why distant religions converge: ideas are inspired through communication with the Geist, rather than simply produced by brain synapses.
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For humans in history, mythology and ideas are real because people can act them out and reorganize political possibility around them.
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The Catholic Church becomes the city of God, the new Jerusalem, and the basis of the Holy Roman Empire as a project to create heaven on earth.
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Jiang defines historical movement through a Hegelian dialectic: every mythology or idea produces an opposing idea, and history moves toward a synthesis of these living ideas.
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The central concept to remember is that world history is constantly in competition and that some ideas or social forms win out over others.
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"...no sense of individual propriety, okay? It's like... This is my idea, you can't have it, okay? It's, it's always like, we're in this..."
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"Why is that a lot of other religions and Plato or Dante, they came to the same realization of Monad? Why is that? It's..."
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"...the same brain, right, same neurological structure, but we have different ideas? And why is it that I have so many ideas and others..."
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"...fire together and they hit and like, oh, we have an idea. I don't know. Okay. Okay. All right. So, great. We will continue..."
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"...keep on telling you guys, in history, for us humans, mythology ideas are real, okay? So Robespierre remembers this mythology, or subconsciously knows this..."
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"And that is what we should be pursuing. Okay? So Rome is trying to create the end of history meaning that it is trying..."
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"...Empire. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's the power of ideas. Charlemagne in the city of God had already created the intellectual framework..."
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"...point is, there's this universe called the dialectic. And there's an idea proposed by the German philosopher called Frederick Hegel, in the 19th Century...."
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"...But I do need you to remember, the concepts, and the ideas. Okay? How, the world, history, is constantly in competition, with each other...."
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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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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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