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The urban elite order justified as necessary to tame chaos and organize irrigation.
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The urban elite order justified as necessary to tame chaos and organize irrigation.
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Glossary
A social order where men are in control, which Jiang links here to violence, cattle protection, and private property.
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Roman priority orders family as patriarch first, inheriting son second, and wife as follower; Jiang contrasts this with the relative equality of Penelope and Odysseus.
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Jiang summarizes the Roman perception of wifely duty as self-erasure when a wife is no longer useful to the husband's destiny.
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Jiang links patriarchy, money, and war as a package that emerges when cattle and sheep become private property on the steppe.
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Jiang says the non-patriarchal system could love all children of the tribe, while patriarchy narrows love to one’s own children.
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Jiang presents ancient matriarchal social organization as sexually autonomous, politically flexible, child-centered, and more egalitarian than later patriarchal arrangements.
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Rousseau's account of private property makes ownership the founder of civil society and the source of inequality, patriarchy, and war.
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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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"Love is what leads you to hell. Okay? All right, so he wants to kill Helen as revenge for the destruction of the world...."
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"The most important person in the family is the patriarch, the father. Then is the son who inherits. And the wife is just someone..."
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"And therefore she has to kill herself to free him. But not only that, but if she were to become a slave to the..."
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"And therefore you cannot grow a big city in Europe. Okay? So that allows them to maintain a pretty good life. Okay? So when..."
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"...woman. You need a system run by man. This creates a patriarchy. Okay? So this is a very important principle in human history. These..."
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"...our love. So in the system that we have today, a patriarchy, we only love our own children. But in their system, the Asian..."
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"you okay so in a society there's a hierarchy and the people in charge they want you to work hard they want you to..."
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"first is it's fun okay it gives some pleasure to have sex with as many men as possible that's number one. number two is..."
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"...always practiced population control but we when we switch to a patriarchy now we can have as many children as possible okay because now..."
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"have a major impact on the french revolution and enlightenment okay it's an idea of private property where does private property come from the..."
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"...because of the idea of private property we now have inequality patriarchy war okay this is where war and patriarchy and equality come from..."
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"...do you justify the transition from an equal society to a patriarchy? The answer is this, the answer is embedded in the mythology, right?..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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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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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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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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