Glossary
Jiang uses it as the ideology that removes God/divinity and makes money, utility, property, class, animality, and sex the explanatory center.
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materialism
Jiang uses it as the ideology that removes God/divinity and makes money, utility, property, class, animality, and sex the explanatory center.
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Glossary
The school-taught belief that the world is only what can be seen, observed, and measured.
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Reduction of human purpose to usefulness, prosperity, consumption, and buying things.
Glossary
The modern view Jiang defines as treating what cannot be seen, measured, or felt as unreal.
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prediction
Jiang says most people will remain materialistic and will not survive because they refuse to adapt, believe a new world is coming, or change their minds.
model
Jiang argues materialism was created to make the unfair financial system seem fair by replacing God with money as the highest good.
diagnosis
Jiang says the last twenty years overindulged the animal soul and abandoned the divine soul, leaving the human soul off balance and producing conflict.
prediction
Economic rupture will force people away from Gulfstream fantasies and foreign vacations toward introspection, family, community, and meaning.
diagnosis
Science is described not as the pursuit of truth but as evidence-making that justifies and protects the status quo, which is why Jiang calls it fundamentally materialistic.
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diagnosis
School-taught materialism is a great lie because it treats the world as only what can be seen, observed, and measured while failing to answer consciousness, thought, ideas, communication, and human nature.
model
The universe is not material; it is conscious, or consciousness itself.
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diagnosis
Jiang says the West has replaced patriotism, family, and religious duty with materialist status markers such as followers, views, subscribers, and money.
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"So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the..."
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"Okay. They refuse to change their minds. Okay. Any more questions?"
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"...fair system and that's why you create a new idea called materialism or money is God and so what was happening was that transnational..."
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"Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the..."
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"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
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"...what happened is that these are the three major philosophers of materialism of British Liberty and then you have people like uh marks come..."
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"Okay. So first of all, it's important to understand that this is how religious people in Israel frame the conflict in Israel, okay? A..."
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"...the world is people start to recognize limitations of money, of materialism, of individualism. And they start to embrace more spirituality, community, family. Because..."
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"There will be... There will be avocados in the supermarket, okay? But all this means is now you have a chance to focus more..."
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"to protect the system and then you have to protect the people ultra surrounding the system because this system tends to be so ROS..."
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"What is a great book? What I want to show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you..."
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"How do we think? How do we have ideas? How do we communicate? you're not allowed to ask this question. And therefore, you're not..."
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