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For a nation or community to survive, Jiang says it must shift from materialism to spirituality, from individuality to community and family, and from elderly control to younger leadership.
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Spirituality
For a nation or community to survive, Jiang says it must shift from materialism to spirituality, from individuality to community and family, and from elderly control to younger leadership.
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Jiang says the last twenty years overindulged the animal soul and abandoned the divine soul, leaving the human soul off balance and producing conflict.
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Jiang says spiritual purpose can make people capable of feats modern materialist people find unimaginable, such as extended meditation or physical austerity.
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The secret level of Jesus' teaching, as Jiang presents it, says the visible world is false and worldly wealth poisons the soul like salt water.
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He contrasts most human history as spiritual with the modern materialistic view that what cannot be seen, measured, or located is not real.
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Jiang says Russians believe in mysticism, spirituality, prophets, and unknown forces that cannot be reduced to empirical knowledge.
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"...first thing you need to do is move from materialism to spirituality. Right now, the entire world, these nation states, have convinced the population..."
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"Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is to move from a system of individuality to community and family. All right. And what this..."
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"The younger, the better. And you think this is easy to do. It's not. Because first of all, these baby boomers have access to..."
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"Okay. So first of all, it's important to understand that this is how religious people in Israel frame the conflict in Israel, okay? A..."
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"...money, of materialism, of individualism. And they start to embrace more spirituality, community, family. Because quite honestly, you don't have a choice in the..."
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"what it means to live a life of spirituality of divinity of trying to bring heaven to earth okay but if you did do..."
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"If you're rich, if you want to follow him, then you must abandon all your wealth. And he demands self -sacrifice from all his..."
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"So you drink more and more salt water, and eventually you will poison yourself, right? So that's how he feels about the pursuit of..."
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"the forest right does that make sense guys okay so for most of you of human history people take their religion extremely seriously so..."
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"today the word we use is materialistic materialistic and the idea of materialistic is this if we cannot see it okay it's not real..."
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"And to understand the difference, what you do is you read British literature and compare it with Russian literature, okay? And then British literature,..."
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"So there are forces we don't understand. There are individuals who are prophets, who are sent to us by God. We can never know..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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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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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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