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Jiang rejects those as downstream effects and asks for the concrete social change that would have produced materialism and hatred in the first place.
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Social change
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A student answers Jiang's prompt by saying the neighborhood changed because new people arrived, which the class explicitly names as immigrants.
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Jiang formulates three laws for communities: they are fluid and dynamic, internal diversity is greater than diversity across societies, and communities exist in opposition to each other.
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Jiang defines anomie as the loss of cultural rootedness when inherited values cannot adapt to rapid change.
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After 1848, monarchs begin embracing nationalism as a way to contain social change they can no longer hold back.
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Jiang says the Enuma Elish embeds three mythologies: Tiamat and Apsu creating the world, the gods inhabiting it, and Marduk creating the universe through victory over Tiamat.
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Jiang says he now sees himself as an internet professor whose role is to teach people how to analyze, make accurate predictions, and reflect on social change.
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"Yeah, but where did that come from? Where did this materialism come from?"
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"No, what's causing this materialism? What's causing this hatred? Come on. I mean, like you just talk to your grandparents, right? And like your..."
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"You understand? you can always choose to leave and so if you don't like the community anymore you and your family just get up..."
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"diversity within in china is greater than the difference between china and the united states it doesn't make sense okay the third law is..."
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"...and on how, on how to better reflect on, um, society, social change in general."
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"And it creates psychological issues. Okay? Primarily the idea of enemy. Enemy just means a loss of sense of cultural rootedness. Right? As things..."
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"...point recognized that they can't really hold back the tide of social change. And so certain nations like Germany started to embrace nationalism as..."
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"...mythologies embedded within this mythology, which gives us the idea of social change and evolution in Mesopotamia at this time, okay? So the first..."
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"...social control is not the only way to deal with rapid social change."
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"Why are there social changes? This looks like a system of equilibrium where because of parenting, people know their place, and people know how..."
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