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Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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Social Hierarchy
In Jiang's account of Confucian hierarchy, scholar officials sit at the top, farmers and artisans below them, merchants below that, and artists or poets at the bottom.
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Governments, when given a choice, prefer maintaining social hierarchy over innovation; Europe innovated because neighboring threats made innovation a matter of life and death.
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Jiang uses Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese invasion to illustrate that Chinese elites may treat peasant revolution as a deeper threat than foreign conquest because revolution overturns social hierarchy.
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In Jiang's account of Confucian hierarchy, scholar officials sit at the top, farmers and artisans below them, merchants below that, and artists or poets at the bottom.
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"...why is whole society approach means a radical transformation of your social hierarchy and social order. That's the reason why, all right? So the..."
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"...So this is a radical social transformation that overturns the entire social hierarchy. And that's why this is really important. This is a process..."
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"...goods. The bureaucrats didn't want that. They wanted to protect the social hierarchy. With gunpowder, yeah, it's fine, but the problem is, if now..."
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"Because, like, Japan, Korea, they're not really threats to China at this time. They're more afraid of internal revolution, okay? So that's where the..."
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"...greater military threat, but they are not a threat to the social hierarchy. You can work with the Japanese, right? The Japanese are perfectly..."
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"Does that make sense, guys? Excuse me? Because the scholar officials, they were in charge of bureaucracy, right? If you're running a bureaucracy, you..."
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"And then, at the very bottom are who? The artists, right? The poets. In Greece, this was the complete opposite. They placed Homer at..."
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"...able to assimilate these barbarians into the culture and maintain a social hierarchy, okay? And so in other words, Jesus was talking to slaves,..."
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"...it's not because what it means is it will overturn the social hierarchy okay because the aristocrats are just used to like doing whatever..."
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"...the experiment, the result was the same. What happened was the social hierarchy.. At that moment, the mauve tropical்?uh the miejsc of the North..."
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"...business. And that wasn't available before, right? Because in peacetime, the social hierarchy stays stagnant. Okay, does that make sense? So yeah, I mean..."
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"My kids aren't going to rise up in a social hierarchy. There are fewer and fewer economic opportunities. Young old people aren't dying, okay?..."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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