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He uses literary references (Milton, Goethe, Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Augustine) as evidence that each civilization’s strategy comes from different stories about God, selfhood, and pride.
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Literature
He uses literary references (Milton, Goethe, Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Augustine) as evidence that each civilization’s strategy comes from different stories about God, selfhood, and pride.
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He uses Anna Karenina as an example of how desire framed as love can become control and domination when subordinated to ego.
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In literature, prediction and truth are the same thing: if someone can speak truth, that person can predict the future.
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Jiang claims that the Bible is the most influential book in human history and gives Jews their unusually creative cultural pattern.
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Jews are literary and creative because their tradition prizes reflection, open debate, and argumentation over warrior identity.
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Modern prose can be factual and still less truthful because it describes behavior without revealing the spiritual-emotional force behind it.
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Jiang says bureaucratic edits make stories less interesting but more effective at controlling thought, turning lively legends into teachable, brainwashing classics.
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Jiang argues that European culture later fell in love with stories from the Islamic Golden Age, including Arabian Nights, even though those stories were not the high art of the Muslim world at the time.
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"Okay? Because of their pride. And the thing about Paradise Lost is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it..."
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"Because if we can learn for ourselves, we can be like God. And God created us to be his slaves and his servants, okay?..."
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"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
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"While his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart. Okay? So, she demands Count Wronski love her as much as possible...."
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"We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love. And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And..."
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"I know all that. But it makes me, it makes it no better for me. Without loving me, from duty, he'll be good and..."
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"But a human can't do that. And when a human tries to become a God, a human can only become a tyrant. Okay. And..."
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"...Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. All right. So in literature, prediction and truth are the same thing. If you're able to speak..."
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"today we do the bible the most influential book in human history and we'll discuss why the jewish people are so creative today the..."
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"is okay if Yahweh is our God and he's the best God we need a house for him so what we're going to do..."
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"point in history is that it's a very small community of people so David can't be like I'm king if you disobey me I'll..."
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"and argumentation okay and this is and this is why the Jews are so creative okay any questions guys"
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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