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The forbidden act whose violation creates hatred from outside and no-exit solidarity inside the violating group.
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Taboo
The forbidden act whose violation creates hatred from outside and no-exit solidarity inside the violating group.
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His Gaza argument depends on public visibility: he says the act is done in front of the world not despite global hatred but because hatred helps generate the taboo that binds the group.
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The river-at-the-back analogy models taboo as a forced no-exit condition: once the worst modern taboo is crossed, the group either escalates together or is destroyed.
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Transgression is defined as breaking taboos, social norms, and social laws; Jiang proposes that greater transgression creates greater cohesion and synchronicity because secrecy becomes necessary for survival.
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He proposes that extreme secret-society rituals combine group unity, synchronicity, and a belief that divine power has been accessed through taboo violation.
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Transgression is presented as proving faith by rejecting human morality and social taboo, producing liberation and empowerment through violation.
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Frankism is presented as a transgressive religious movement in Central and Eastern Europe that treated taboo-breaking as proof of faith.
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Paintings of the poor function like talismans: they let the middle class define itself against poverty, drunkenness, laziness, and sexual temptation.
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Middle-class art lets viewers peer into the taboo and forbidden while pretending to remain outside participation.
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"...to hate them because by doing this they create the ultimate taboo right we find this disgusting and contemptuous so the entire"
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"...question what's the river right here right the river is a taboo right what's the worst thing you can do in modern society killing..."
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"So the question for us is, why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it?..."
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"world will unite against Israel but guess what that's what their religion wants they call it extremist freedom from within Israel as a Jewish..."
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"forces these five to work together okay so if you are the first to work together you're gets you get screwed in the process..."
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"of taboos the breaking of social norms the breaking of social laws transgression okay so let's study this concept so the idea is that..."
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"...interesting is that when you try, grass when you break a taboo you feel empowered you feel liberated and it becomes addictive right you..."
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"...it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know yeah right this right can you..."
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"the idea of incest right and there are secret societies out there guys that do this and you know what guys I hate to..."
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"I'm just saying this is a possible theory about how the world works right because this is a class of speculation it's a class..."
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"So these are the Calvinists, right? They argue that to show your true faith in God, and for you to prove to yourself God..."
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"...the laws of man, by rejecting human morality, by rejecting social taboos, by breaking social taboos. You are Rocky contradicts me. lebih... actually demonstrate..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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