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The mechanism that controls time and space by allowing private perceptions to become a collective reality.
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The mechanism that controls time and space by allowing private perceptions to become a collective reality.
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Germany's rival nationalism arose as a way to defeat France by grounding the nation-state in language, culture, race, and iron and blood rather than social contract theory.
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He contrasts Rousseau's liberty-centered nationalism with Fichte's language-centered nationalism, where language binds people to the past and makes race, nation, and blood worth fighting for.
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Reality is described as a collective hallucination: people name shadows, build language around them, and mistake that shared symbolic order for the real world.
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If one can control time and space, one can control reality itself.
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Language controls time and space by allowing people with private perceptions to arrive at a collective understanding of reality.
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Because poets create language, Jiang says poets create reality through poetry.
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A poet's beautiful language enters listeners, is internalized and absorbed, and becomes the building block for a shared reality.
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Jiang says poetry joins the material and the spiritual, the here and the forever, and the present and the eternal by turning that conjunction into words.
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"...up with a new theory based on nation, which was basically language, culture, and race. And so this becomes Germany, okay, or what we..."
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"...father of German nationalism. And his argument is that it is language that binds us as humans. Okay. So for Dr. Rousseau, it's liberty..."
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"Today I want to look at three questions. Why did this war between United States and Iran start? How will this war end? And..."
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"...them names, okay? We give them names. And we create a language in order to tell stories about these shadows. And this becomes, really,..."
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"So another way of saying this is that reality is a... collective conscious, which is really a hallucination, okay? So there's certain things about..."
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"This thing is called language. Before, we would just each perceive our own time and space. With language, okay, we're now able to come..."
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"And we do so through a filter called time and space. So time and space do not exist outside of us. They exist inside..."
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"varsa. You are only a spirit of protecting you, the explanation, the power, your gift, or what you call wisdom and neglected your humanity...."
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"They'll just drown in their own misery. It is impossible to read the compositions nor celebrate writers of the present day while being startled..."
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"Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah,..."
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"...Everything that we know, everything that we do, it's because of language. Of the language that the poets create, okay? Does it make sense,..."
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"...of the universe onto our world and construct it in a language that allows us to access this truth eternally. Okay? So in this..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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