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Jiang says there is no path to enlightenment and no path to Apollo without the two traditions being held together.
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Tradition
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the answer is because for humanity to progress, you need both traditions in place. Okay? Without these traditions together, there is no path to..."
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Jiang says that even after total civilizational destruction and a 10,000-year rebuild, humanity would regenerate the same basic story conflicts between freedom and tradition and between history and the future.
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He contrasts Kabbalistic ethics with a Russian catacomb tradition that tries to stop the end of Christ, describing the latter as anti-transgression.
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Roman piety is obedience to fathers, history, and tradition; in Jiang's contrast, Roman greatness comes through conservatism and war rather than Greek openness and curiosity.
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He argues that by destroying Russian tradition, wealth, religion, and nobility, Bolshevism made the Soviet Union more amenable to capitalism after its fall.
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Jiang defines the ritual world as a script: living well means following inherited practices that respect the world's traditions and keep balance with the environment.
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America destroys inherited tradition and reverence for kings but fails to replace that authority with equally revered law.
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The second and third differences are purpose and legal basis: Locke centers liberty and tradition, while Rousseau centers reason and the general will.
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"...the answer is because for humanity to progress, you need both traditions in place. Okay? Without these traditions together, there is no path to..."
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"...same narratives, the same stories, the same conflicts between freedom and tradition, between history and the future, okay? This is what humanity is fundamentally..."
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"The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's..."
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"...This means obedience to your father s, to history and to tradition. And so the Romans aren t extremely conservative people, but they re..."
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"...where does this come from if you look at every single tradition okay then they all say the same thing so uh the main..."
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"you you make you discredit both anarchism and socialism right because the point of communism is you need a revolutionary Vanguard in order to..."
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"...what the cultural revolution was about it was to destroy all tradition all I think identity um all sort of National pride and then..."
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"...finance the war, okay? And in the process, by destroying their tradition, by destroying their wealth, by destroying their religion, by destroying their nobility,..."
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"about food and never about stories and tradition and religion and I think this goes back to the idea that for the longest time..."
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"and so you don't have that many stories in in in China interesting I I wonder"
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"...living, you must follow certain practices in order to respect the traditions of the world, and that's what brings harmony and heaven to the..."
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"history, something that we've all been doing for a long time, and it's something that we've understood and we've appreciated. Then the question then..."
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