In Jiang's flesh-eating-monkey thought experiment, mortal threat forces alienated consumers to cooperate, become happy through a common goal, and experience war as structure, meaning, and purpose.
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Thought Experiment
In Jiang's flesh-eating-monkey thought experiment, mortal threat forces alienated consumers to cooperate, become happy through a common goal, and experience war as structure, meaning, and purpose.
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"...acting with others. Does that make sense? So let's do another thought experiment to understand the warrior concept. Let's just say that in this..."
"Okay. What's going to happen is that everyone is going to put aside the differences. And work together to fight the monkeys, okay? And..."
"...just very simple trick. Okay. And like, so let's do a thought experiment where I design a program software. Okay. Okay. And the thing..."
"...this plan is correct or not but let's just do a thought experiment and say what is Americans actually up to and the argument..."
"So, so, so, so let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that Trump visits China in mid -May and the meeting goes really..."
"...determination, right? So to understand this idea, let's just do a thought experiment, right? Let's just say that we're venture capitalists. We have billions..."
"...prove determination. So, to understand this idea, let's just do a thought experiment. Let's just say that we're venture capitalists. We have billions of..."
"...about the war, what I want to do is do a thought experiment. To examine how we're going to understand what's going on between..."
"...Okay, so you have like five guys. This is just a thought experiment, okay?"
"...stupid, okay? So let's just use an analogy. Let's do a thought experiment. The sky is blue, right? So we know the sky is..."
"...people, okay? So we're gonna imagine, okay, and this is a thought experiment. It didn't really happen. We're gonna imagine Paul making a pitch..."
"...so powerful? All right. To understand this, let's just do a thought experiment. All right? So imagine this. There's four groups of 100 people..."
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