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Not primarily overt coercion but the capture of attention, imagination, and belief so that a false reality becomes the only reality.
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Not primarily overt coercion but the capture of attention, imagination, and belief so that a false reality becomes the only reality.
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He claims AI can only be kept useful by making it financially and socially pervasive ('everywhere') while also acknowledging constraints from human labeling dependence.
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The Rousseau passage read aloud claims that renouncing liberty is incompatible with human nature and destroys morality, rights, duties, and reciprocal obligation.
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Jiang interprets Rousseau as saying freedom is given by God, connects humans to God, and cannot be surrendered without surrendering humanity.
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Dido's arc is from proud queen to emotional collapse, including the thought of begging to become a slave girl if it keeps her near Aeneas.
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Jiang presents slavery as a historical energy substitute: when cheap oil is unavailable, societies may again use enslaved human beings to run the economy.
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He frames the Civil War as a clash between the Northern free-labor game and the Southern slave-labor system, with slavery corrupting the game's openness, fairness, and clarity.
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He says the common social seedbed of revolution is debt, slavery, and landlessness produced by unequal wealth and interest.
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The people behind the cave wall are trying to enslave prisoners not mainly by force but by capturing attention and imagination.
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"Right? Money is fake. It doesn't exist. Our imagination, our consciousness makes it real. Okay? But guess what? AI can replace money. So AI,..."
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"...Okay? Do you understand? So, AI is based entirely on human slavery. Okay? And obedience. AI doesn't work. The problem is that AI is..."
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"To renounce your liberty is to renounce your status as a man, your rights as a human being, and even your duties as a..."
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"And it doesn't make sense to speak my right against myself."
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"Okay, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our..."
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"okay so again the idea here is for Homer love is what gives you strength love is what allows you to resurrect yourself okay..."
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"She's seriously considering being a slave girl if it just means being near Aeneas. And ultimately, she decides, no, my only option is to..."
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"It was more expensive, it was not so convenient, but it still works. So this does not mean the end of global trade, it..."
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"important for us to understand is it is expansionist okay so what happened is that in its history america faced certain challenges to this..."
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"...over time, because of interest rates, the poor find themselves in slavery. Okay? Because if you can't afford to pay back the bank or..."
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"...your debts. I will give you land. And I will end slavery. And that's it. Okay? Every single revolution has been like this. There..."
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"...And the answer is because they're trying to enslave us. Okay? Slavery. But then you're like, okay, but slavery means that I take a..."
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