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The argument for grain is not that grain people are freer or stronger, but that they are easier for kings to count, settle, and govern.
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State Control
A security service can rationally support extremists because extremists discredit opposition, deepen factional conflict, justify repression, produce intelligence, and can be aimed at political enemies.
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A security service can rationally support extremists because extremists discredit opposition, deepen factional conflict, justify repression, produce intelligence, and can be aimed at political enemies.
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He asserts that a combination of economic disruption and controlled narrative can prepare public consent for a surveillance-first governance structure.
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"history might repeat itself so what led to world war ii was first of all 1929 stock market crash where you know billions of..."
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"money into the world and depending on what you're making into the world you're making money into the world"
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"The first is you would need an enforcement mechanism and this would be ICE. Do you really need soldiers with machine guns in the..."
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"into ground so your herdsman can tell people how many eels there are and how many young lambs and how many goats and how..."
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"that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want..."
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"But if you're a secret police and you ask yourself what are the benefits of helping them, it turns out there's quite a lot...."
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"Once industrialization happens, capitalism will automatically make the proletariat class conscious. And when they're class conscious, they become industrialized. They will unite and overthrow..."
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"...supporting political extremism, you also induce political violence to justify more state control. You collect intelligence by implanting spies within these extremist groups. You..."
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"Kill Alexander II. You also have false flag operations where you have extremists on behalf of your enemy create terrorist events within the country..."
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"So how does the Persian state control, like, Persian control of Jerusalem transfer to modern -day society? Like, how does it still work? Because..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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