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Confucian bureaucratic elites whose power comes from reading, writing, and information transport.
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scholar officials
Confucian bureaucratic elites whose power comes from reading, writing, and information transport.
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Scholar officials' secret power was literacy, which made them indispensable to the emperor and gave them a monopoly they did not want to give up.
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In Jiang's account of Confucian hierarchy, scholar officials sit at the top, farmers and artisans below them, merchants below that, and artists or poets at the bottom.
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"...China's history, China was run by a class of people called scholar officials. Right? Confucian scholars. What was their power? What was their secret..."
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"Does that make sense, guys? Excuse me? Because the scholar officials, they were in charge of bureaucracy, right? If you're running a bureaucracy, you..."
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"And then, at the very bottom are who? The artists, right? The poets. In Greece, this was the complete opposite. They placed Homer at..."
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"...is something that's been declassified. So these are, this is an official CIA document saying they've been working on this for like decades. Also,..."
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"...war when Israel went in and killed a lot of government officials and nuclear scientists, thinking that that would force Iran to collapse because..."
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"...record a number of very high level Western countries, Western leaders, officials say as much explicitly. One was George Soros at Davos in 2021...."
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"...very resilient, okay? So that's one possibility. And that's what the official story is. But there are also others who say, like, the Iranians..."
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"...very resilient. Okay? So that's one possibility. And that's what the official story is. But there are also others who say the Iranians hit..."
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"When the Berlin Wall fell, there was an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote a very influential essay called The..."
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"...is that the Iranians are killing a lot of senior Israeli officials, including the head of Mossad, the spy agency."
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"...and this is the main way that you learn Latin the official language of the Roman Empire and so whereas Homer will give us..."
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"...successful. On October 2nd, Cohen wrote to Robert Pell, a senior official in the State Department, asking for help. The next day, Pell caught..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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