Jiang challenges the idea of modern superiority by asking for a contemporary achievement that is wonderful and spectacular enough to rival the achievements under discussion.
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Modern Achievement
Jiang challenges the idea of modern superiority by asking for a contemporary achievement that is wonderful and spectacular enough to rival the achievements under discussion.
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"any more questions so i do i do agree that we cannot be promised nowadays and i'll definitely die if you just put me..."
"Can you tell me what we do today that is so wonderful and spectacular?"
"Yeah, what do we do today that's so wonderful and spectacular and you think is amazing?"
"Give me an example of something that we do today that is spectacular and wonderful."
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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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