Jiang's phrase for violence that binds a population to total war by making retreat morally and politically impossible.
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Ritual human sacrifice
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...lectures, I believe that what's happening in Gaza is a ritual human sacrifice. And this is something that the Aztecs did, something that the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...lectures, I believe that what's happening in Gaza is a ritual human sacrifice. And this is something that the Aztecs did, something that the..."
Key Notes
He says what is happening in Gaza is a ritual human sacrifice designed to commit the whole population to total war, comparing it to Aztec, Roman, and Spartan precedents.
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"...lectures, I believe that what's happening in Gaza is a ritual human sacrifice. And this is something that the Aztecs did, something that the..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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