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The American game produces massive inequality because eventually the few win everything, making people nostalgic for older civilization, identity, duty, and sacrifice.
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The American game produces massive inequality because eventually the few win everything, making people nostalgic for older civilization, identity, duty, and sacrifice.
The Viking hall recreates something older than civilization: the Ice Age cave gathering where ancestors learned who they were through stories in darkness.
Adam and Eve is powerful partly because the Garden of Eden activates nostalgia for an Ice Age egalitarian memory of humans living with plentiful food and little struggle.
Jiang says the common Indian religious ideas of oneness and false reality must come from the IVC because those religions are localized to India and appeal to a fundamental Indian nostalgia.
Jiang argues that humans generally have nostalgia for oneness and false reality, and he identifies Plato's cave and the Second Coming as powerful Western expressions of those same desires.
"to school because we need to get an education go to America get a degree we can become rich when we become rich we..."
"Some important things to know about this. First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about..."
"...back to the time of the Ice Age. It's activating a nostalgia within us and that's why the oral tradition is so powerful. Okay?..."
"...for that time. Okay? So it is provoking or activating our nostalgia for that time. Within each of us must be that a long..."
"We didn't really struggle against each other. We really didn't struggle against nature. We were one with nature and with each other. Okay? Any..."
"...fundamental sense of the world among Indians. They're basically appealing to nostalgia. Right? And where is this nostalgia from? It must be from the..."
"...In fact, I would argue that we as humans fundamentally have nostalgia for these two ideas. Oneness and false reality. Okay? Because if you..."
"...this is saying is at a fundamental level everyone has a nostalgia for a distant past. Okay? And what is this distant past? The..."
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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