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Jiang's pattern for historical development in which a new social order dethrones the old and reverses its mythology and values.
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Jiang's pattern for historical development in which a new social order dethrones the old and reverses its mythology and values.
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Used here for the symbolic act of bringing the heavens down to earth.
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The act of flipping heaven and hell, good and evil, spiritual and material values to preserve power.
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Jiang says Virgil is plagiarizing Homer in order to invert and subvert Homer, not merely borrowing a scene.
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Virgil reverses the Iliad's Priam by making generosity and openness lead not to moral reconciliation but to Troy's doom.
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The Aeneid turns the Iliad's Priam-Achilles reconciliation into a scene where the son of Achilles destroys his father's moral legacy.
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Jiang says mythology can be decoded as lost civilizational history because mythic inversions preserve traces of social transformations.
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The lecture's inversion sequence moves from animistic egalitarianism to mother goddess fertility, then to male sky-god domination, exploitation of earth and people, hereditary kingship, civil war, and bureaucratic takeover.
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In Jiang's reading, Enuma Elish encodes the sky-god inversion by having Marduk kill the mother goddess Tiamat and build the ordered world from her divided body.
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Nixon's phrase that the heavens became part of man's world is used by Jiang as evidence for an inversion motif: heaven is brought down to earth.
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He argues that secret societies embedded in bureaucracy invert religion by worshiping Satan so that transgression becomes empowerment rather than guilt before God.
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"Okay, alright. Alright, okay. So, again, this is rewriting of the battle between Hector and Achilles. But in this battle, it is Hector who..."
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"The day of infamy soon came. The sacred rites were all performed for the victim, the salted meal strewn, the bands tied around my..."
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"Whoever you are, from now on, you've lost the Greeks. Put them out of your mind and you'll be one of us. But answer..."
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"Okay, so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent,..."
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"Okay, so Pyrrhus is a son of Achilles, okay? So this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles..."
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"At that, Priam, trapped in the grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage. You, he cries, you and your..."
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"Okay, so again, he is reminding us of the ending of the Iliad where in this great war, peace and love come to universe..."
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"With that and with all his might, the old man flings his spear. But too impotent now to pierce. It merely grazes Pyrrhus' brazen..."
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"...learn about human history is that it's a constant process of inversion. Okay? And what I mean by that is that as humans, progress,..."
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"...guys to remember. Remember that history is a constant process of inversion, where the old order is being dethroned by the new order. So..."
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"And then with agriculture, you had the mother goddess civilization, because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess, is able to give you more..."
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"And different societies have different sky gods, but they're basically the same concept. So in Egypt, they have Ra. In Babylon, they have Marduk...."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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