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Low-population poor societies may use dispersed sex and disguised paternity to create shared male investment in children.
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Social Cohesion
Low-population poor societies may use dispersed sex and disguised paternity to create shared male investment in children.
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He presents the patriarchal family/property model as historically false for much of human history, arguing that women had bodily autonomy and diffuse paternity supported social cohesion and shared child care.
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Jiang contrasts an older moral order, where every life was treated as a gift from God and society protected the vulnerable, with a present order ruled by cost and revenue calculations.
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Jiang uses Japan's reverse-parking norm and Mongol invasion resistance as evidence of unusually strong social cohesion.
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Jiang defines a nation as a fiction or narrative that everyone believes in, and says America's unifying narratives are breaking down.
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"They don't understand what germs are. So it's very easy for a woman to die in childbirth. Okay? And low competition. Low competition just..."
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"And every child born will live. Okay? And then you have something called equilibrium. Equilibrium just means that yeah, there's competition but they're not..."
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"...there's just lots and lots of sex in order to maintain social cohesion. Okay? Now in a superstructure number two there's no dating either...."
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"be different we want we want to be creative the third thing is we are curious and want to explore and that's what explains..."
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"...enjoy their Okay the second of all allows women to create social cohesion so for most of human history we start like april five..."
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"knows who the fathers are everything starts over for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that..."
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"Maybe because it was harder to regulate the procedures to take for euthanasia. And because it was such a new thing. You have no..."
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"...you'll be protected, right? So, what mattered back then was about social cohesion, social capital, social trust. And now what matters is just numbers...."
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"Japan underwent tremendous social change to go from a feudal society into a modern industrial nation that, in 1905, was able to defeat a..."
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"...reverse park. Everyone just does it because of a sense of social cohesion. So, in the 13th century, the Mongols, having conquered Korea and..."
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"...is not China. It's Japan. Okay? You have to look at social cohesion. You have to look at how willing people are willing to..."
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"government, okay? And guess what? Delta Force, which is the most elite special force unit in America, has exactly 1,000 members. So, you have..."
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