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The modern story that humans chiefly want money, sex, and power, which Jiang says makes people more governable.
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Materialism as control myth
The modern story that humans chiefly want money, sex, and power, which Jiang says makes people more governable.
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"highlight some YouTube comments okay so let's talk about heaven on earth so we did the ice age and now what's happening is that..."
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"you okay so in a society there's a hierarchy and the people in charge they want you to work hard they want you to..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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