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8 timestamped hits 2 source readings 2 extracted notes Aliases: utilities

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Utility

Jiang says modern education has trained students in utility, obedience, and compliance, but not in love.

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Key Notes

Claim stated in the December 16, 2025 lecture.

diagnosis

Jiang says British utility-first philosophy aligns with Frankist materialism by rejecting biblical and first-principle moral limits.

Timestamped Evidence

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"...We should just focus on first principles and just focus on utility. Does it bring benefit to people? And this is the very basis..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"...reconstruction of society on a purely rational basis. The principle of utility has been powerfully developed. Okay. I speak not with lightness of the..."

Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat

2025-04-24, day precision · Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre

Transcript

"...their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be found only on public utility. Okay? This is a radical statement. Everyone is equal in the eyes..."

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Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

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