Jiang says modern interpreters differ from ancient Egyptians because Egyptian minds were pre-literate, pre-science, and pre-capitalistic.
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Jiang says modern interpreters differ from ancient Egyptians because Egyptian minds were pre-literate, pre-science, and pre-capitalistic.
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Pre-capitalistic civilizations, Jiang argues, often pursued religious, communal, and moral goods rather than money; the pyramid should be read as a project of community, peace, and eternity.
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"...pre -literate mind. They also had a pre -science mind, also pre -capitalistic. So let me explain. Pre -literate is very simple. It just..."
"...this? And that's a huge difference. And the third difference is pre -capitalistic. Today we do things to make money."
"We come to school because we want to get a job, because we want to make money and we want to buy things, okay?..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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