Jiang says John Williamson's theory is that modern repression imprisons the soul in husk, so promiscuous group sex can destroy marital and social conventions and reveal whether any real love remains underneath them.
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Repression
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Key Notes
Odysseus asks for the wooden horse song because going home requires him to confront and admit the pain he has been repressing.
Secret societies preserve the hidden truth because, in this model, humanity can be saved only if the secret survives despite repression by the Demiurge, Nephilim, empire, and ordinary disbelief.
He says recent global economic, COVID, and war management shows elite incompetence, which forces elites toward lies, force, and repression to make people obedient.
He says buying things can function as a distraction from questioning, thinking, and challenging elite incompetence.
Answering Celine, he says love and hate are one force, and creation and destruction are one force; if love or creation cannot express itself, hate and destruction will.
The host proposes that contemporary social media may function like a digital Hundred Flowers Campaign by encouraging candid speech now in order to identify troublesome people for later repression.
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"And so we have imprisoned our soul in the husk. This society that enforces a husk onto us. So the path to liberation means..."
"Odysseus, master of many exploits, praised the singer. I respect you, Demodocus, more than any man alive. Surely the muse has taught you, Zeus'..."
"So he's feeling all this pain because of memories of the Trojan War. But he recognizes that if he's willing to go home, because..."
"Yeah. You know, we've experienced World War I and World War II, but our participation was, you know, more remote. There never was like..."
"It's like the idea where like the Chinese government allowed people to kind of speak freely about their opinions and before like cracking down...."
"this world but to activate this light you must be a good person you must love one another you must reject money and materialism..."
"that is only taught in secret societies the other thing about social societies that's really important is they believe that most of us cannot..."
"They need to create fictions. For example, maybe, well, I went to Yale or Harvard, and therefore, I should be at the top. Or..."
"Okay? And that's what's happening today. And so this repression can go on for a long time, but to control us, they must repress..."
"So Prime sneaks into Achilles' tent. And kisses his hand. Right? That moment. You can never mathematically express it. You can only write about..."
"And the answer is that love and hate are one force. You understand? If I can't love you, I'm going to hate you. You..."
"But within each of these things is another force. And if love can't be satisfied. Love can't express itself. Then hate will express itself...."
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