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Jiang reads The Debate Between Sheep and Grain as propaganda for settled agriculture over pastoralism, because rulers prefer subjects who stay in one place and can be controlled.
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Sheep AND Grain
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "is mine the water skin of cool water and the sandals are mine sweet oil the fragrance of the gods mixed oil pressed oil..."
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"is mine the water skin of cool water and the sandals are mine sweet oil the fragrance of the gods mixed oil pressed oil..."
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"and answer me what you can reply okay? so that's the argument from the sheep the grain says when the beer dough has been..."
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"into ground so your herdsman can tell people how many eels there are and how many young lambs and how many goats and how..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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