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Haman's warning to Creon is framed not as obedience to the mob but as listening to what is right and just when the people recognize Antigone as a hero.
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Jiang calls Tocqueville’s prophecy that America will either break into civil war or return to a single master a dark prophecy about the unsustainability of American structure.
Jiang summarizes the three reasons pyramid building stopped as crisis of faith, centralization's pathologies, and religious belief corrupting the state into tyranny.
Tarquin the Proud is presented as tyranny embodied: an arrogant king who kills noble challengers and whose son abuses royal power.
Jiang defines Alexander's predicted tyranny as a demand for total obedience that leads him to eliminate talented people promoted by Philip because they can counter his power.
Jiang predicts that anyone who tries to reason with Alexander for his own good will be read as a threat, disloyal, and an enemy to be eliminated.
Haman's warning to Creon is framed not as obedience to the mob but as listening to what is right and just when the people recognize Antigone as a hero.
"in all its other parts has always struck me as an ethereal monster okay we think we live in democracy we think the government..."
"...belief can only lead to the corruption of the state and tyranny. Okay? So I answered those three questions. Any questions before I continue?"
"His name is Tarcanus Superbus. Okay? Superbus is Latin for arrogant. So he's often referred to as Tarcan the Proud. Okay? So Tarcan the..."
"So, from this model, we can extrapolate three characteristics of Alexander's reign when he takes over as king, okay? What's the first characteristic of..."
"...his own people and because his tyrant people will counter his tyranny, okay? So, we predict he will demand complete and total obedience. From..."
"and try to reason with him, he will see you as a threat, as disloyal, and as an enemy who must be eliminated, okay?..."
"There are these laws in the universe that are divine, unwritten, and immutable. And we must respect these laws. Human laws cannot override these..."
"They think you are a tyrant, father. And Creon says, should I obey the mob? Should I, the king, listen to the mob? And..."
"...I will free you from slavery. I will free you from tyranny. I will free you from poverty. Okay? That's always the messenger. That's..."
"...preaches only servitude and independence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. General Christians are made..."
"...those individuals who once had the will of all to battle tyranny on their own so in a aristocratic system what will happen is..."
"you, within all the friends of tyranny conspire, they will conspire until crime has been robbed in this situation. The first maximum of your..."
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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.
Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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