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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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Population Control
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the inequality where maybe 1 % of the people of the population control most of the wealth. So, you know, a classic anecdote is..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the inequality where maybe 1 % of the people of the population control most of the wealth. So, you know, a classic anecdote is..."
Key Notes
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Egalitarian societies are described as stable and peaceful because property is shared and, in Jiang's account, women often controlled population through reproductive choices.
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He says warfare in the nuclear age is primarily about maintaining control over one's own population while diminishing cohesion inside rival societies.
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"so after the French Revolution after the public wars you had something called the concept of Europe which guaranteed peace um in Europe for..."
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"the capacity to diminish um cohesion in other um uh in other nations right so when putin is from this war in ukraine he's..."
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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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"...children die in childbirth as well so women have always practiced population control but we when we switch to a patriarchy now we can..."
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"Right? What happens if you don't have a forest fire? Do, do you guys know? Okay. The resilience goes down. Okay? And also, the..."
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"Okay? So it's egalitarian. And, so, these societies, were, pretty stable. Okay? And the reason why is, usually, it was, the woman in charge,..."
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"...the inequality where maybe 1 % of the people of the population control most of the wealth. So, you know, a classic anecdote is..."
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"...too many status positions now when you do that it's for population control okay so warfare becomes a mechanism of population control all right..."
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"...wealth, which allows for more opportunities. Survival of the fittest. So, population control. So, basically, the strongest survive in war, the weak die off...."
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