People acting in unison because their minds have become alike; Jiang also calls it a hive mind and links it to telepathy-like intuition.
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synchronicity
People acting in unison because their minds have become alike; Jiang also calls it a hive mind and links it to telepathy-like intuition.
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The organization and mobilization of a people into one task, presented as the secret to modern warfare.
A social ordering system where people internalize rules and synchronized behavior, increasing military and industrial effectiveness.
A society's cohesion, trust, and willingness to follow shared rules; ASR also renders it as 'sequanticity'.
Cohesion in the model becomes synchronicity: people from different backgrounds learn to understand each other more intimately than their own families and act as one mind.
Jiang uses the grenade example to argue that under extreme synchronicity the body acts before calculation, sacrificing itself for the group because the team matters more than individual life.
Jiang uses Spartan education as evidence that ritualized brutality, hazing, mentorship, and sexual bonds can manufacture brotherhood and military synchronicity.
The powerful maintain power by making the material world feel real, denying the spiritual model, and using transgression to tune into the same lower spiritual 'website' for synchronicity.
Hitler's charisma and speeches are treated as instruments for producing unity of will and synchronicity, the mass organization required for modern warfare.
Synchronicity means structuring society so people follow rules; Jiang names Germany and Japan as classic examples and links orderly lines to military and industrial effectiveness.
He defines synchronicity as social willingness to follow rules, using traffic, subway seats, and public trash as examples of cohesion and trust.
He claims high-synchronicity societies such as Japan and Germany will do better over the long term than low-synchronicity societies such as India, Brazil, and China.
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"...their own wives and this cohesion will lead to something called synchronicity"
"synchronicity synchronicity is when people act in unison together okay so a very simple example of synchronicity is a sports team right when you..."
"...son okay and that's how the hive mind works that's how synchronicity works let's let's look at another example let's just say that one..."
"across the bridge all right but you're the last person okay and all the monkeys are about to descend on you and you know..."
"to give you some historical analogies to this okay how do you know that what I'm saying is correct well let's look at certain..."
"the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people the 300 soldiers make a final stand their leader is Leonidas and he tells..."
"one there's no education they're not learning anything all that's happening is the older boys are just beating the crap out of the younger..."
"other they learn how to bond with each other during the mentorship phase these young boys learn to think like in a hive mind..."
"other unconditionally okay um and that's what they tell us what the system also tells us is that the powerful want to deny this..."
"...because they locked on to the same website it allows for synchronicity it allows for them to commit to think alike and to behave..."
"...right? And so the unity of will creates the idea of synchronicity. Remember, synchronicity is a secret to modern warfare. Synchronicity means the organization..."
"So the first step for Hitler in order to assume power is something called the Night of the Long Knives, okay? This is really..."
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