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Jiang's sequence from charismatic sacred founding through growth, farming dependence, hierarchy, corruption, and exit.
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Settlement cycle
Jiang's sequence from charismatic sacred founding through growth, farming dependence, hierarchy, corruption, and exit.
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Jiang's model of settlement rise and fall begins with messianic vision and artistic community, then moves through population pressure, farming dependence, hereditary hierarchy, corruption, memory loss, and exit.
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"Before you can kill animals, you need to pray to the gods and ask for permission. After you kill the animals, you must thank..."
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"And over time, as the population grows, they become much more dependent on farming, okay? So it's a gradual process. It doesn't happen overnight...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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