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Writing is used to convince free pastoralists to give up a mobile, independent lifestyle and become controllable agricultural subjects.
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Pastoralism
Nomadic pastoralism creates conflict over grazing rights and cattle, because survival depends both on feeding one's herds and potentially stealing others' herds.
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Jiang reads The Debate Between Sheep and Grain as propaganda for settled agriculture over pastoralism, because rulers prefer subjects who stay in one place and can be controlled.
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The second steppe innovation is dairy and lactose tolerance, which Jiang treats as a biological-economic change that made milk usable as food.
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Nomadic pastoralism creates conflict over grazing rights and cattle, because survival depends both on feeding one's herds and potentially stealing others' herds.
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Jiang contrasts agricultural societies, where life-giving and harmony made women more important, with violent pastoral society, where protecting cows and fighting made men more important.
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Horse plus wheel created the wagon, allowing mobile pastoralism and helping Proto-Indo-European speakers spread language from Europe to India and Iran.
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"Remember they invent writing in order to basically gaslight the people. So even though Samaria Mesopotamia is developing really quickly as you can see..."
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"now is they're going to create these mythologies to convince people to give up the free happy lifestyle of pastoralists and become an enslaved..."
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"is mine the water skin of cool water and the sandals are mine sweet oil the fragrance of the gods mixed oil pressed oil..."
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"and answer me what you can reply okay? so that's the argument from the sheep the grain says when the beer dough has been..."
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"into ground so your herdsman can tell people how many eels there are and how many young lambs and how many goats and how..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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"Does that make sense? So what we realized what these people realized is they can take the cows, the goats and the sheep, from..."
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"If you move from place to place and the cows are eating all the grass, what happens usually? Conflict, right? Because you are now..."
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"So women were more important. But in this society, where there's a lot of violence, there's a lot of conflict, men became more important,..."
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"and as such they create the wagon the wagon meant they could move from place to place and they they became what we call..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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