Jiang says poetry recreates perception by making people feel what they perceive and imagine what they know, renewing a universe blunted by repetition.
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Jiang says poetry recreates perception by making people feel what they perceive and imagine what they know, renewing a universe blunted by repetition.
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Jiang says repeated content from the prior civilization series is intentional because he is reanalyzing history from the angle of secret societies and building a different overarching thesis.
He argues that if psychohistory works, it would change the fate of humanity forever by helping humanity stop repeating the same historical mistakes.
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"It compels us to feel that which we perceive and to imagine that which we know. It creates a new universe after it has..."
"have two natures an altruistic and utitarian nature and what we've discovered is that um if you break the balance and you become too..."
"the slant the over thesis has changed okay and I'm and I'm going over a lot of this information in order to build a..."
"But also going back to throughout history and seeing how history can be revamped or changed so that it's more accurate. Okay? Does that..."
"one thing that you notice in this class, it's like we tend to repeat the same mistakes. Right? The question is like, why do..."
"...for example, energy is a very important concept, life force, cycle, repetition. Well, then you have to use symbols in order to express these..."
"...very long time all right I mean this is all just repetition even an angel should not have lived by the angel standard but..."
"...some things you can't draw. For example, love or energy or repetition or balance, harmony, cycle. Right? These things you can't draw. So you..."
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