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The forest ritual wakes the forest when illness, bad hunting, death, or danger suggest the forest has fallen asleep and stopped looking after its children.
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The forest ritual wakes the forest when illness, bad hunting, death, or danger suggest the forest has fallen asleep and stopped looking after its children.
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Jiang argues that humans created language for creative, musical, storytelling, and communal reasons, not primarily for economic coordination or hierarchy.
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Jiang says prehistoric people had symbolic capacity and could have written, but chose not to because writing was viewed as a corruption of divine song and communal experience.
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The Song invested power in imperial bureaucracy to avoid the Tang problem of overmighty generals.
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China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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Starting around the Song, emperors solve the elite-threat problem by localizing elites and using divide-and-conquer against them.
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The Keju is the main mechanism that let emperors transform a national aristocracy into localized elites.
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The Huang Chao Rebellion eliminated Tang aristocratic families, opening space for the Song to prevent nobility from arising again.
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"So if you disrespect them, they will not only kill you, but they would forget about you forever. So this is how they explain..."
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"So what do we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want..."
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"So, why do we speak? Because we want to sing. Okay, does that make sense? Singing, creating music, was a way to express ourselves..."
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"We're not doing this out of our own will, we are only a portal or a mechanism or a channel for the divine to..."
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"...the written form. So it's almost like a corruption of the song, okay? And also for them, this is really important. Okay. All, everything..."
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"It was a corruption of the natural world, okay? All right? Does that make sense? Okay. So this is a, these are all the..."
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"the Song Dynasty will adopt a policy of diplomacy to build assimilation with the northern tribes, okay? They're trying to avoid the trap of..."
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"...question, again, we're looking at is, why is it that the Song Dynasty is the last creative dynasty, all right? And if we use..."
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"...give rise to innovation. But starting at the time of the Song, we see a radical change. Look at the Song, okay? Okay? The..."
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"...the trend is fairly clear. Starting at the time of the Song, you see a steep decline in the state's ability to collect taxes,..."
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"...support in the military and in government, okay? Starting around the Song… Okay? The centralized elite is now broken down into localized elite. So..."
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"...Dynasty started to use it. Okay? But it was really the Song Dynasty. That really systemized and promoted it. Okay? Basically, the Song Dynasty..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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