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Visual culture is passive and self-enclosed compared with oral and literary culture, though it gains informational density and universality.
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Jiang concludes that the United States will use ground troops because Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel can manipulate a passive, incoherent United States into a ground invasion.
Visual culture is passive and self-enclosed compared with oral and literary culture, though it gains informational density and universality.
Jiang says Augustine's doctrine makes inaction morally safer than action because sinful humans can only do wrong and may interfere with God's plan.
Jiang says Augustine forces obedience by making disobedience emotionally and spiritually costly: ordinary freedom becomes the risk of eternal hell.
"in a proper way that is strategically beneficial right does it make sense you guys okay so um yeah so we we just answered..."
"So think of videos think of photographs. Right? First thing to understand is that it's passive. Both in literary and oral culture you have..."
"every one of us is God's property we are not free of ourselves we are God's property therefore when we kill ourselves we are..."
"anything God knows everything God has a plan just obey the will of God and the will of God means doing nothing and in..."
"Alright? Augustine is really using the logic of empire. He's trying to force people to be obedient. Right? Because obedience leads to salvation. Hey,..."
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.
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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