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Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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Merchants
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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"...then you have to go from agriculture to industry. Who? The merchants. So now you have to give the merchants, the capitalists, tradespeople, more..."
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"the people with the most authority in your society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is..."
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"...Macbeth. And then the other side, you find Portia in The Merchant of Venice, the, you know, very wise lawyer and then also Ophelia,..."
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"...Ghibellines, who are aristocrats, nobility, and the Guelphs. The Guelphs are merchants. They are the middle class. OK. And Donny belongs to the Guelphs...."
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"...all right okay so before what were banks banks were just merchants okay a merchant alliance why because merchants needed capital in order to..."
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"...war, you need to hire mercenaries. So you borrow money from merchants who lent you gold in order to finance the war. The problem..."
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"...a citizen of England, borrowing money from these transnational capitalists, these merchants? And if you can't pay it back, your your son, your children,..."
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"...serve British monarchical interests. So, so previously before, if you're a merchant, you lent money to a king to fight his wars. The problem..."
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"...-day war in Iran, which translated into protests. You know, these merchants were protesting in Iran. And this is a classic color revolution playbook,..."
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"...of the real on the foreign exchange market. And that caused merchants to protest throughout Iran against mismanagement and corruption in the government. These..."
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"...wealth how do you keep the wealth secure, right? You're a merchant, you're being very wealthy through trade by going to East Indies and..."
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"...to go fight a war, you borrow money from bankers and merchants, right? The problem, though, is that one you could lose the war...."
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