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5 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-05-06, day precision Aliases: middle-class-identities

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Middle Class Identity

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you think about it this is now becomes the prototypical middle -class identity right and so even though we're in China and we are..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you think about it this is now becomes the prototypical middle -class identity right and so even though we're in China and we are..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety (2025-05-06, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety; Reason Becomes A Religion.

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Those three pressures generate modern money-making, the art market, literature, and materialism as a prototypical middle-class identity.

Timestamped Evidence

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

Transcript

"...will become much more concrete. Okay? So what makes the middle class identity? The first is the idea of education. Second is the idea..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

Transcript

"...of science into society in order to create a new middle class identity. And it still exists today. All right. So that is the..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

Transcript

"...to systemize and institutionalize Dante to create a new European middle -class identity. So all these ideas are coming from Dante."

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