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Academia and science are described as protecting and justifying society while providing a network for powerful people to meet and work together.
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Legitimation
The social contract stabilizes rent extraction: elites acknowledge that rent is bad for the people but are obligated to help society by giving back through public goods and rituals.
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Writing and mythology arise in this account to record temple-economy obligations and to make an unnatural hierarchy look divinely ordained.
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He reads Babylon's divine construction as a political trap: if the city is built by and for the gods, residents are taught that their enslavement is their proper home.
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The social contract stabilizes rent extraction: elites acknowledge that rent is bad for the people but are obligated to help society by giving back through public goods and rituals.
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"Okay, do you guys understand what's happening? Okay? These are parasites. They look at geopolitics and they're like, how can we take advantage of..."
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"No, it's not. It's about protecting and justifying the society. It's not just coal. It's about providing a network for powerful people to meet..."
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"And because of this economy, now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets..."
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"We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing..."
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"Okay? So now, he's gonna create this hierarchy. So yes, all humans are slaves but there's some humans who are better slaves than other..."
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"shrine to house a pedestal wherein we may repose when we finish the work. When Marduk heard this, he beamed as brightly as the..."
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"And all this process, is paying rent. Right? So, if you are, if you have, a school, you can charge for rent. Just as,..."
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"Right? But back then, they didn't have a government, they had the elites, who were responsible, for building temples, for building, for, for holding..."
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