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The people who maintain power in Plato's cave do not need force; they rule by manipulation because prisoners believe in the shadows and in the rulers' power.
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Manipulation
The people who maintain power in Plato's cave do not need force; they rule by manipulation because prisoners believe in the shadows and in the rulers' power.
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Jiang concludes that the United States will use ground troops because Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel can manipulate a passive, incoherent United States into a ground invasion.
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Achilles changes the expected course of events by adding glory and divine possibility to Patroclus' mission, exciting his desire to prove himself rather than simply rescue the Greeks.
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Frank’s knife story is read as a lesson that rigid law makes learned people stupid and vulnerable to manipulation.
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Jiang says school history is an implanted false system and that understanding power should liberate students from manipulation.
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Yahweh's mistake is that he lied to Adam and Eve by saying the fruit was poisonous, which makes their disobedience a reaction to manipulation.
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Caesar's genius in the alliance is his charisma and manipulation: he can form a working coalition with people technically and politically opposed to him.
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In Jiang's summary of The Clouds, the thinkery teaches reason, logic, and truth as tools for manipulating juries and escaping debts.
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"...enough of them okay the way they maintain power is through manipulation and trickery and deception and we know this because in Plato's Avenue..."
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"just like get rid of them and there's this chain around my neck it's like a it's like a ribbon and he doesn't know..."
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"woman this woman this man this man this world it's a beautiful world and it's like for him heaven and he's like oh my..."
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"in a proper way that is strategically beneficial right does it make sense you guys okay so um yeah so we we just answered..."
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"So, we've known for a long time that we as humans operate at many different levels all at once. And so, we don't really..."
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"Okay, stop, okay? This is what's happening. Achilles is implanting into Patroclus some new ideas. And these new ideas is, oh my god, Patroclus,..."
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"One Saturday I went outside the city and there brought myself some oranges and having a penknife on me. Peeled them a learned Jewish..."
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"to beg me to come to him promising all kinds of good things but I did not want to do it and in this..."
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"Okay so certain things that you will notice about the story is first of all he has contempt for Jews. Okay? A learned Jewish..."
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"Okay? So just because he's able to do this the learned Jewish scholar is now saying oh you must be the Messiah. You must..."
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"Okay? There's no difference between that artificial intelligence system and what we're trying to do here. And why are we doing this? Because if..."
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"And therefore, you'll be free. You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live. To see the world that is true to..."
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