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Weber's account says predestination creates a duty to consider oneself chosen, because doubt signals insufficient faith and imperfect grace.
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Weber's account says predestination creates a duty to consider oneself chosen, because doubt signals insufficient faith and imperfect grace.
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prediction
Jiang reads Weber as predicting either new prophets, rebirth of old ideas, or mechanized petrification; he identifies fascism and communism as rebellions against capitalism.
diagnosis
Jiang says Weber and Durkheim are prophets because they see a wealthy, connected civilization moving toward depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-destruction.
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He reads Weber as saying Protestant anxiety leads to capitalism and capitalism ultimately leads to civilizational decline.
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Weber's three possible responses to capitalist decline are nothingness or zombie society, theocratic return, and new prophets who channel anti-capitalist discontent.
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"He's trying to explain why is it that Protestants are a lot wealthier than Catholics in general, okay? And this is what he has..."
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"And to combat all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self -confidence is the result of insufficient faith and hence of..."
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"That's not what's important. What's important is your faith, right? But the faith decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage, okay? Money..."
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"in the future or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise or there will be a great rebirth..."
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"...what I'm saying is going to be depressing, but what Max Weber is saying is, we live in a zombie civilization, okay? That's what..."
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"You can go to the United States and study and then come back and work, okay? You have more opportunities than ever before. But..."
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"...solution, okay? So let's figure out what they're saying, okay? So Weber is saying that this anxiety, which leads to capitalism, will ultimately lead..."
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"The first possible response is nothingness. In which case, guess what? We become a zombie society. A zombie society just means that we just..."
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"The second is called fascism, okay, or the Nazis. All right, so the 12th century was really about defeating these two critics of capitalism,..."
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"...sort of faith in our society, okay? So that's what Max Weber is predicting. He's predicting these three possible paths. We tried the new..."
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"...sociology, there are three major thinkers, pioneers of this time, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and this man, George Simmel. And George Simmel wrote a..."
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"...of sociology, there are three major thinkers, of this time, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, and this man, Georg Simmel. And Georg Simmel wrote a..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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