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A modern concept of a person independent from family, community, and world; Jiang denies this existed in most earlier social worlds.
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A modern concept of a person independent from family, community, and world; Jiang denies this existed in most earlier social worlds.
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Asha introduces the individual, free choice, and inner truth as concepts that Jiang says revolutionize human history and structure monotheism.
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The Gathas teach Jiang's core triad of individual responsibility, free will, and moral unity: good thoughts, good words, and good actions.
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Monotheism introduces the unprecedented concept of one true God, which makes truth, evil, and the individual dominant concepts.
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Truth, evil, and the individual are the three monotheistic concepts Jiang says underpin modernity and control the modern world.
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Monotheism is framed as the intellectual revolution that made money, the individual, and the nation-state dominant, producing modernity and its consequences.
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Jiang argues that individual happiness is historically new; older happiness was collective because a person could not flourish while family or community suffered.
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Jiang says the concept of an individual independent of family, community, and world is a recent invention; exile was formerly worse than death because belonging was selfhood.
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Money, the individual, and the nation-state are presented as concepts beyond direct human experience that people must be brainwashed into believing.
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"...three new concepts that will revolutionize human history. They are the individual. What matters is what matters inside of you. Okay? Everyone's doing bad...."
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"Okay? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Okay? And this together is two to three point billion people on earth. And that's why I say Zoroastria..."
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"...before the final judgment comes. Okay? So the idea of the individual. What matters is yourself. What you do. What your family does. What..."
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"Okay? What is the truth? Being virtuous. Because you yourself are virtue. Okay? So he wrote in a language called Avastin. And it's a..."
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"Okay? But the problem, of course, is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay? That's why people don't do..."
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"You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works...."
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"breaking the structure of the universe okay so this was the polytheistic worldview now when you go to the monotheistic worldview all this changes..."
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"...with true and evil you have a new concept called the individual before in this world what mattered was your family your community your..."
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"these three forces now what's important for us to understand is these three concepts are beyond the human intuition you cannot logically by yourself..."
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"...And for monotheism, we developed three new ideas, which are money, individual, and the nation state. It's important to note that these ideas have..."
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"...will discover about this list is this, you are thinking about individual happiness. And this is actually unique in human history. If you were..."
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"Yeah. So, you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard. Okay? But the individual, the concept of individual..."
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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