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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-05-19, day precision Aliases: ashlar, ashlars, rough-ashlars

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rough ashlar

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Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Holy Empire of AI (2026-05-19, day precision).

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Perfect AshlarStateOrder OUT OF Chaos

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rough ashlar

Glossary

In Jiang's reading of Pike, the rough ashlar is the unorganized human mass or chaotic society before political perfection.

Sources: Reading Transcript YouTube

Lecture interpretation on 2026-05-19 of Morals and Dogma.

definition

Jiang reads Pike's rough-ashlar versus perfect-ashlar imagery as a political theology in which diverse and unruly society must be reorganized by the state into harmonious equilibrium and perfected order.

Sources: Reading Transcript YouTube

Timestamped Evidence

The Holy Empire of AI

2026-05-19, day precision · Game Theory #26: The Holy Empire of AI

Transcript

"...read this part, okay? So I'll read the first part. The rough ashlar, okay, this is the ashlar, guys, which is a stone. It's..."

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