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The host adopts Jiang's term for the institutions and elites that preach and enforce the reigning civilizational creed.
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priest class
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model
The alleged programming system trains the whole royal family because priests need replacement rulers and can program rival brothers to create civil war.
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Jiang says money is an imaginative belief structure whose reality depends on collective faith, which is why central bankers operate like a new high-priest class.
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Jiang says the prestige of science depends partly on mystery and priestly mediation, because a fully transparent science would lose some of its authority.
diagnosis
Jiang says modern priestly authority is now distributed across multiple elite institutions, including academia, the scientific establishment, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street.
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"...so um i see central bankers almost as a new high priest class so um yeah so but but but i mean like we..."
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"...then it loses its power right um you don't need a priest class wouldn't you? class anymore, if science is complete accessible to, um,..."
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"Um, so, so, so, so, so I, I, I, I do think that science is a religion and, um, it is, I mean, a..."
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"So, so what would you say is sort of the new religion, uh, under capitalism? Is it like science or is it like the..."
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"...a very complicated question because, um, before you only had one priest class. Right. Um, but nowadays you have different, uh, factions of the..."
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"...is being trained into this the problem arises is when the priest class divides into different political factions who all want power then they..."
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"...rabbis are just a corrupt elite like all every like every priest class before. They're like the Catholic Church. Right? The Catholic Church is..."
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"The Levites are important. Levites are actually the priest class of the Israelites, okay? Keep on going."
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"These factions, these divisions only exist for the priest class to exploit us, for the emperor, for the political class to unite, to divide..."
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"...this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win your..."
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"...created. The people who are in charge of the Bible, the priest class, are interested in promoting their own interests. Mainly the importance of..."
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"...mattered was the oral explanation of the Bible controlled by the priest class. Does that make sense? The people didn't read the Bible. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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