The ability to understand another person through secret language rather than possession or obsession.
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intimacy
The ability to understand another person through secret language rather than possession or obsession.
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For Jiang, love is not obsession or possession but intimacy: understanding another person through private language, cold words, and shared secrets.
The old tradition matters because it combines the immersive force of a movie with the intimacy of a deep conversation.
Multiple sexual partners are presented as a way to build intimacy, mutual obligation, and child protection in small communities.
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"...the soul, okay? In other words, what love ultimately is is intimacy. How do you know if you love someone? You love someone not..."
"So in other words, you're able to communicate and understand each other in an intimate language with cold words and secrets. You understand secrets,..."
"But what you will find when you do that is the picture doesn't really capture the experience for you. You cannot the picture cannot..."
"You combine it with the intimacy of a conversation. Just think of like having this like four or five hour conversation with your best..."
"Any questions so far? I know this is controversial, but I'm just trying to show you how our cultural beliefs is radically different from..."
"If you're a small community, okay, maybe 15, 20 people, it makes sense to make sure that everyone loves each other and everyone will..."
"And the way you build intimacy and community is by sleeping with each other's wife. So you became one big family. Okay? Does it..."
"...originally interested him. The moment they were rash enough to approach intimacy and appeal to the simplicity of the world, he saw them no..."
"...is completely dependent on the man. Okay, and also that physical intimacy, all right? So it sounds really depressing, but this is a very..."
"...history, love and sex were not the same thing. Love is intimacy. Sex is just fun. Okay? In some societies, women would have many..."
"...these men will have sex and the reason why is create intimacy and bonding among them and there'll be a lot of religious rituals..."
"...water, and shelter, okay? Humans have a fundamental need for community, intimacy, and truth. But the Catholic Church is denying intimacy and truth to..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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