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Jiang's thought experiment for how hopeless shared danger turns strangers into a mythic, ritualized, highly cohesive group.
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Monkey Island
Jiang's thought experiment for how hopeless shared danger turns strangers into a mythic, ritualized, highly cohesive group.
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Monkey Island becomes an inheritance model: later generations can inherit formative experience through story, ritual, and psychedelics that make the story feel personally lived.
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In Jiang's island model, existential danger produces a new common language, founding myth, religion, rituals, and leader among otherwise unrelated men.
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"...okay? So let me give you another example of this. Remember Monkey Island. On Monkey Island, we discussed this previously, a hundred people are..."
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"...do is you take your children, you put them on an island, and you tell them a story, and then you give them psychedelics...."
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"island the resources you need to survive trees food and rivers the monkeys are there okay there's one safe spot in the center but..."
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"looks bleak they don't even speak the same language they don't have a common culture so at this point you would imagine that they..."
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"to believe that god has chosen them to save the world and that's why they're here then what they will do is with this..."
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"...the Shard of Malacca. So America has something called the First Island Chain. The First Island Chain prevents China from reaching the Pacific Ocean...."
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"...% of Iran's oil goes to China. And this is Karg Island, okay? This little spot here is Karg Island, and this is where..."
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"...any mists the first custodian angel won from paradise. This solitary island, all around its very base, there where the breakers pound, bears rush..."
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"...the first is to sell oil okay and this is karg island which is their main depot okay oil depot and ninety percent of..."
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"...ground forces okay so what i can do is seize khasem island seize karg island seize the coastline and force the Iranians to respond..."
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"...they got penetrated. They allowed the Dutch to set up an island where they could do their trading. And then little by little they..."
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"...ground operations near the Strait of Hormuz, primarily Kargilin and Qasim Island, possibly even the Iranian coastline. And you do that. And basically what..."
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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