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4 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: sheep-and-grains, sheep-grain, sheep-grains

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Sheep AND Grain

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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The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda

2025-10-29, day precision · claims

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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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