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The bully-school model begins with an apparently beneficial coercive order: students pay a cafeteria tax because the bully keeps peace and order.
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The bully-school model begins with an apparently beneficial coercive order: students pay a cafeteria tax because the bully keeps peace and order.
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Secret society ritual displaces agency onto a higher power such as Satan or Saturn, allowing members to believe that evil acts serve order or paradise.
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Jiang explains the transition from an egalitarian agricultural society to urban patriarchy through mythology: Tiamat is coded as chaos and Marduk as order, so destroying the old is justified as creating peace and order.
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Urban elite or patriarchal command is justified, in Jiang's reading, because coordinated authority can command people to build irrigation and walls that tame river chaos.
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He uses school routines as an analogy for ritual: ordered actions only make sense because an underlying belief system gives them purpose.
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"...it's actually beneficial. Because the bully is keeping the peace and order in the cafeteria. Right?"
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"He's keeping everyone safe. So yeah, I pay a dollar, but it's not that much money. And we're all safe, so that we can..."
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"And it turned out, that when he was in pain, people are much more willing to let go of their inhibitions. Because what you're..."
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"...a god of time. Kronos is a god of time and order and structure, and Kronos would do things that were unconscionable, that were..."
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"...is embedded in the mythology, right? Tiamat represents chaos. Marduk represents order. So even though we are letting go of the old, we're destroying..."
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"Why? Because if you think about it, the serpent, the water serpent, looks like the river. And the river is the basis of all..."
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"...exactly the same way where every minute of their lives, there's order and structure to what they do that has meaning and purpose."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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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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