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Rousseau's political reason leads Jiang to 'count, measure, compare': good government becomes measurable progress, and the French Revolution expresses that in the metric system.
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Rousseau's political reason leads Jiang to 'count, measure, compare': good government becomes measurable progress, and the French Revolution expresses that in the metric system.
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Capitalism narrows reality by making money the highest good and rendering love or care unreal when they cannot be measured or financially exploited.
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"So if you only think about the common interest, everyone would come to the same conclusion about everything. Okay? If the general will is..."
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"...we can know how we are doing as a society through measurement, by measuring things, by counting things, okay? Count. Measure. Compare. And that's..."
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"They are? Can you guess? These two countries are the countries that are most, that were most against the French Revolution. These countries are?..."
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"Okay. So, what made us lose the ability to imagine, right? Okay, well, it's these three things really. Capitalism, science, and the nation state...."
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"...there, because otherwise, we cannot explain these statistical inconsistencies in our measurements and modeling. And then, of course, you're like, well, why don't you..."
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"...though it covers a huge area, they have standardized weights and measurements. Okay? They have standardized weights and measurements. Which means that every brick..."
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"...how to carve granite, how to move granite, how to do measurements, okay? You have specialization going on. Then you have something called institutionalization,..."
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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