Jiang's theory is that falsifiers hijack imagination for evil ends: counterfeiters hijack value, spies hijack truthfulness, impostors hijack authorship of identity, and all thereby contract the universe rather than expanding it.
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Spies
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Key Notes
Sidonia's network of adventurers, spies, outcasts, and secret Jews is read as evidence of international cosmopolitan reach.
Jiang's model of the Assassins combines drugs, sex, paradise imagery, trauma, and early training to produce perfect slaves, spies, and killers.
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"Imagination. Okay. All right. So one possibility, okay. And I'm just putting this out there for us to discuss. Okay. Is that what these..."
"...people's imagination that this money is very valuable. Right? As a spy, you're hijacking people's imagination that people tell the truth. The imposter hijacks..."
"...minister of state has such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the..."
"Okay, all right, that's fine, okay. Look, the idea is that Jews are, first and foremost, international, the cosmopolitan, right? And as a result,..."
"Why are they called assassins? Because of the word hashes. Hashes is a drug like marijuana, right? It's a hallucinogen, okay? So the way..."
"...then have them infiltrate other secret societies. They become the perfect spies. Because they are forever loyal to you. Okay? They're completely emotionally dependent..."
"And then they will unleash these kids. Kids on other secret societies and their enemies as well, like the assassins did. Okay? Does that..."
"...against? Probably rich Chinese immigrants because they can be labeled as spies, right? So go back to World War II when the Japanese were..."
"Okay. So we already said that Israel spies on America on American military, so they can still spy in secret and no one will..."
"...franklin and hamilton were not english assets they were not english spies but they'd have contacts in the british empire of course because britain..."
"...another place and became educated. But historically, they were not called spies. OK, spies is a new term. Historically, they were called hostages. Right...."
"...this system is stable and these enforcement mechanisms are crime intelligence spies basically spy networks um and science. Okay? And they these three mechanisms..."
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