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Jiang uses it for a mindset that separates humans from nature and wants to know in order to control.
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modern mind
Jiang uses it for a mindset that separates humans from nature and wants to know in order to control.
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model
Jiang says modern interpreters differ from ancient Egyptians because Egyptian minds were pre-literate, pre-science, and pre-capitalistic.
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Jiang names the first major difference between modern and pre-modern minds as separation from nature versus belonging to nature.
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"All right. So I want to finish the class with a different question, which is why is it that my interpretation is so radically..."
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"sound might betray their presence to some person or thing not of the forest they stood there quiet and still and it struck me..."
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"Okay, we're obsessed with control, right? We have to control everything. We wanna know something because we want to control it, okay? We like..."
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"mind is what we consider modern and their mind is what we consider pre -modern okay what's the first major difference between I okay..."
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"that surprise him exactly okay so here's the first big difference why do we think that nature is dangerous why do they not think..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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