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The central problem of mass society: controlling the population and making people get along.
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The central problem of mass society: controlling the population and making people get along.
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Mass society's central problem is social control, and Jiang assigns different control solutions to the earliest civilizations: bureaucracy in China, religion in the Indus Valley, war in Mesopotamia, and Pharaoh in Egypt.
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The lecture's modern social-control takeaway is that everyone is now the pharaoh: contemporary mass media, mass education, and mass psychology allegedly control people by the same structure.
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Local priests give the church bureaucratic reach by interacting with people directly, gathering information useful for taxation, and shaping thought.
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Jiang advances a control-grid theory: manufacturing fear and economic shocks helps elites increase social compliance.
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He argues military draft expansion and food/information control can work together as elements of a future AI-driven obedience architecture.
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"The peasants have become too uppity. And so you need to make them much more anxious. You need to make them much more desperate...."
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"Well, that's what Colonel Towner Watkins says, and she's brilliant. And she talks about this as the strategy of tension. And these left -behind..."
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"Right. So if we just extend our logic, right, and just say, you know, we're going to have a war. Okay. During this war,..."
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"Look, if there's an AI surveillance state that's coming, then Palantir will be the heart and center of that. So, food rationing. They'll allow..."
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"Look, I hope I'm wrong, okay? On the internet, people call me an idiot. I hope I'm an idiot, okay? But I also think..."
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"...Now, when you have a mass society, your biggest problem is social control. How do you control the population? How do you get everyone..."
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"So in China, we developed a bureaucracy. And what underpinned the bureaucracy? The first is something called the keju, which is the civil service..."
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"But in Mesopotamia, it's a desert. And so it's really easy to attack. And therefore, they had centuries of warfare. And that's what kept..."
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"work but they they were there they hide the fact of its effectiveness and the results of mk ultra have spread throughout society guys..."
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"...takeaways is is all societies are first and foremost concerned with social control and what's really interesting is who we are as a human..."
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"5 000 years ago is still is really the way that they control us today and i'll show you how as we discuss mass..."
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"Okay. And it does that through its local churches. Right? The priests. Because if you think about it um the people are interacting with..."
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