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Jiang says Iranian bombardment of Tel Aviv paradoxically helps religious-nationalist forces inside Israel by weakening the cosmopolitan Tel Aviv pole and intensifying the struggle over Israel's spiritual identity.
"...is the conservative religious theocracy. Right. So there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And because..."
"And so there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And so there's almost like a power..."
"And so there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And so there's almost like a power..."
"...human remains so we assume that um these people lost a power struggle and as such they're all sacrificed together okay so in other..."
"...certain faction invites mercenaries into the nation as part of the power struggle. And then the mercenaries realize, you know what? We can stick..."
"...Muhammad, called the Companions, they were all basically eliminated in the power struggle that emerged after the death of Muhammad."
"...of Christians, there's some local persecution of emperors because of the power struggle. But eventually emerged an emperor named Constantine, and he had fought..."
"...purity, the Samaritans argue for tolerance. And so this is a power struggle, a religious power struggle. In 443 BCE, around the same then..."
"...all these people who believe they have power. They should have power. Struggle for power. And because there are too many of them, this..."
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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.
Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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