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The coordination of many social and technical pieces, including writing and financial systems, into one functioning pyramid economy.
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systemization
The coordination of many social and technical pieces, including writing and financial systems, into one functioning pyramid economy.
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The pyramid economy depends on three simultaneous capacities: specialization, institutionalization as memory of knowledge, and systemization that coordinates writing, finance, workshops, and labor.
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Jiang's central controversial argument is that Aristotle was not primarily a philosopher, thinker, or writer but a censor, synthesizer, editor, or systemizer who chose what was politically convenient.
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Jiang argues that a censor was needed to create Greek identity by standardizing and systemizing Greek knowledge into encyclopedias or textbooks defining what it meant to be Greek.
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Jiang describes the museum at Alexandria as the world's first research university, where Greek scholars continued Aristotle's work by standardizing and systemizing Greek culture for imposition in Egypt.
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"...in a guild or workshop, okay? And then you also have systemization, which is to say you have to bring all these pieces together,..."
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"You need writing, a writing system. You need a financial system. You need a lot of elements, okay? I'm making this sound a lot..."
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"Okay. So this is a great question, okay? What do the Egyptians remember about the Great Pyramid? So Herodotus was running about 400 BCE,..."
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"My argument is that Aristotle was not a philosopher. He was not a thinker. He was not a writer. What he was ultimately is..."
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"So if you were Greek living in Asia Minor, you were probably more Persian than you were Greek. Okay? So in other words, Philip..."
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"And stole the body of Alexander. Which started something called the War of the Diokai. Okay? Basically the successor wars. That's the first thing..."
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"...throughout the entire country. Okay? And this creates the idea of systemization and standardization. And you have mobility of people, of goods, and of..."
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"...basically. Something that they do that's important is the idea of systemization."
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"All right? Basically, keep records, create laws, systemization. And last is the idea of standardization. Standardization. Uniformity. Okay? So, getting people to speak the..."
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"...we call rent seeking. Okay? So, centralization eventually leads to corruption. Systemization leads to, ultimately, stagnation. Okay? There's nothing new going on. And, centralization..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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