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Consumer society becomes servitude because people concerned only with buying things cannot produce a liberal, energetic, wise government.
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Consumer society becomes servitude because people concerned only with buying things cannot produce a liberal, energetic, wise government.
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Jiang contrasts Egyptian benevolent gods, who give civilization and require reverence, with Mesopotamian violent gods, who create humans as slaves and demand constant labor.
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"new bromo hosts of men all alike and equal endlessly hastening after petty and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls over these..."
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"He creates the entire universe basically. From the body of Tiamat. After that. The gods all decide to rest in peace. But they need..."
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"...find out that gods are extremely violent. And they demand our servitude. They are our masters. Okay. So we must constantly work to please..."
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"...Christian republic. Those two terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and independence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always..."
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"...christian republic those two terms are mutually exclusive christianity preaches only servitude independence its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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