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The outsider word Jiang says insults the ritual because it assumes make-believe where believers see truth.
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pretending
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang says Turnbull's repeated use of 'pretending' marks an outsider misunderstanding because the Pygmies would regard the ritual as true, serious, and real.
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"...importance and expectancy every evening when the woman shut themselves up pretending that they were afraid to see the end of the forest every..."
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"does not understand these people what word tells us he does not understand these people He doesn't know what's going on. Why? What word..."
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"...what word implies that here? It repeats itself over and over. Pretending, right? Pretending. We think they're playing. What do they think? We think..."
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"...crying if you could just resurrect him? You know? Are you pretending? Is this theater, you know? But Jesus kind of explains that he..."
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"It is basically saying one thing and doing another. So you're pretending to be better than you are. So you put off this mask."
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"...ultimate goal is to like get benefits by kind of like pretending to be like a better person."
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"...The energy part of this. We produce our own energy, almost pretending there isn't a global energy economy that America inevitably will be dependent..."
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"...figures, doing nothing every day. Just sitting in my office and pretending to type on a keyboard. And like, if I had a family,..."
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"...china because it's lumbering it's too big it's a poor nation pretending to be rich it has very few resources uh china's a lot..."
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"...against Pete Buttigieg. And Cory Booker is clearly gay, right? He's pretending to be straight. He's born the names because he's because he just..."
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"...thing it's all the same thing it's all blood sacrifice and pretending to be a thing that you're not in spy work which is..."
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"...the Spanish Inquisition, where Catholics were looking for Jews who were pretending to be Christians, the leadership were Jews. The leadership were crypto -Jews...."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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