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Banks do not merely store money; in Jiang’s model they create money/liquidity, making money a collective hallucination rather than a fixed object.
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Banks do not merely store money; in Jiang’s model they create money/liquidity, making money a collective hallucination rather than a fixed object.
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Money can buy militias and opposition groups, but Jiang argues these actors become hustlers who seek U.S. money rather than victory.
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He presents religion as anti-capitalist because it teaches that money is morally suspect and redirects attention toward redemption, salvation, family, and kindness.
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Students must abandon false material reality, including money, power, sex, and fame, and focus on embracing the great books.
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School and money desires are examples of manipulated freedom: students think they are freely pursuing college, money, and happiness, but have been tricked into creating the world desired by the powers.
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Love and imagination are sufficient for happiness; the desire for wealth is rooted in fear of ridicule, isolation, parental rejection, and social condemnation.
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The quoted line that silver answers everything makes money a spiritual as well as practical medium.
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Jiang says Frankist success is measured by mission rather than money: the mission is to create a new world and end the age.
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"And this is, to me, just naive about the nature of money itself. And this is common across the entire economics profession. Economists, weirdly..."
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"...is you've got a device which is supposed to be replacing money, but it's focusing upon the store of value side of money rather..."
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"...right? You're a bank, and your job is to take those money, save it, and then use it properly in order to promote the..."
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"...borrow a million dollars from the bank, okay? Question, how much money is in the bank now? It's gonna be zero, right? Okay, that's..."
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"It's another phrase that we use. All right. Money and wealth. You would think, okay, well, this is it, man. We just bribe everyone...."
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"...that all religions teach the same thing. They teach you that money is evil, right? God doesn't want you to make money. God wants..."
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"...see an investment opportunity in China, I want to take my money from America and put it into China. I don't want to worry..."
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"...you must abandon this material reality that is false. Okay? Abandon money, power, sex, fame, and focus on embracing the great books. And when..."
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"...I can get into a good college, make a lot of money and live a happy life. Okay. You've been tricked but the truth..."
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"...nonsense. Chat GPT, it's lie to us all the time. Sinking money, it's gonna make me unhappy. Why am I sinking money? Not for..."
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"You fear being laughed at. That's why you want money. That's what you wanna do while in school. Once you accept that, then you..."
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"...everything. It is not even possible to draw near God without money. Okay?"
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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