Glossary
In this packet the term names both the public's fear of mystical power and the lever Jiang says Frank exploits rather than trying to dispel.
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superstition
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...makes me think about how you have said he leaned on Superstition on people's Superstition he exploited people's spiritual beliefs and beliefs and mysticism..."
Key Notes
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Greg proposes that some elites may want the public to believe they wield occult powers or commit monstrous rituals because that aura makes them seem godlike and therefore undefeatable.
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Jiang reads the widow story as evidence that Frank despairs of persuading the world and instead teaches followers to exploit people's superstition, greed, and evil before those same people exploit you.
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"...makes me think about how you have said he leaned on Superstition on people's Superstition he exploited people's spiritual beliefs and beliefs and mysticism..."
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"believe they are because if you think there might be a power in it that is beyond human power then you look at the..."
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"and so what we need to do is come together as a new nation and conquer these people and lead them for their own..."
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"against you and steal your money and they almost do okay so this world is evil and so you must accept people for who..."
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"...deceive people into believing false prophecies into believing magic into believing superstitions into denying the authority of God and of the church. So these..."
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"...Creed. Well, if you don't understand something, it's called ignorance or superstition, you understand?"
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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