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Forced irrational orthodoxy hollows out the logical system of the brain: if an unseen unknowable layer is inserted into thought, people can no longer build connections creatively.
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Forced irrational orthodoxy hollows out the logical system of the brain: if an unseen unknowable layer is inserted into thought, people can no longer build connections creatively.
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Virgil's anti-Homeric message, as Jiang states it, is that if Romans embrace Greek logic, philosophy, and theater, Roman culture will be destroyed and must therefore resist Greek culture at all costs.
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Writing culture forces argument to become logical, disciplined, and reflectable because the reader can examine it at their own time.
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Jiang contrasts British logic, where every step must connect, with Russian intuition, where one can jump and imagine without strict logic.
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Jiang says narrowness, empiricism, and logic created the modern Western mind and dominate academia.
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Jiang calls Western academic thinking the bureaucratization of the imagination: claims must be backed by evidence, logic, and experience, producing process-oriented system thinking.
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"All right. Okay. So then the question then is, why would they do this? And the answer is very simple, to make you stupid,..."
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"...is, your brain, the way it processes information is by using logic, right? Okay? So think about building. Think about building."
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"Think about building. Okay? Well, this makes sense, right? You're just stacking blocks on top of each other to build a building, right? But..."
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"...as the Iliad. The real Trojan Horse is Greek culture. Right? Logic, philosophy, and theater. Okay? That's what Greek culture is. Logic, philosophy, and..."
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"...you with rhetoric. All right? I have to use reason and logic to persuade you because you can read it at your own time...."
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"I have to use words we agree with. I have to read on. Okay? The third major advantage is even though it decreases my..."
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"...are, okay? And the last thing is the British believe in logic, okay? It's like mathematics. You can go from one to two to..."
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"...imagination, okay? You're not allowed to say things without evidence and logic and experience, okay? And the Russians don't have this, so they about..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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