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3 timestamped hits 3 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-08-29, day precision Aliases: locality

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Localities

The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.

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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Taboo Is The River (2025-08-29, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Taboo Is The River; Stalin Warped History To His Will; The Bureaucracy That Ate China.

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Key Notes

Ming Keju story used as general explanation of the exam system

diagnosis

The Keju's real purpose is not fairness or transparency but preventing localities from rebelling against the center.

Timestamped Evidence

The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

Transcript

"...open and transparent system he wants a system in which the localities will not rebel against the center okay and that's what the Kezhu..."

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"...this is really interesting how different religious traditions working in different localities have the same conception of the world, of the universe. And can..."

Stalin Warped History To His Will

2025-06-10, day precision · Civilization #59: The Man of Steel

Transcript

"...a spy. His mission was to promote violence and organization within localities. So the secret police can swoop in and arrest everyone. And this..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.

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