Worldview is Jiang's functional name for the soul: it tells a person who they are, where they come from, where they stand in the universe, and therefore enables planning, empathy, relationships, and judgment.
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Planning
High-modernist bureaucracy becomes arrogant because it is a monopoly; it imposes planning, rejects criticism, weakens civil society, and therefore withers and fails.
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High-modernist bureaucracy becomes arrogant because it is a monopoly; it imposes planning, rejects criticism, weakens civil society, and therefore withers and fails.
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"It has almost infinite dimensions. There are different layers to the soul. And there's really... Okay. There's really a part of the soul that..."
"...us and ourselves... Okay. This is important for things such as planning, right? Only if you know who you are can you actually plan..."
"Okay? That's the correct answer. Alright? You believe that you are an individual with individual aspirations, ambitions, with a past, with a history. The..."
"...its ideology on everyone else. It believes that through its own planning, it can achieve paradise. Okay? So it becomes authoritarian, meaning it refuses..."
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