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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "you have written on your sub stack so there was a certain widow who had many children she came to a rabbi asking him..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "you have written on your sub stack so there was a certain widow who had many children she came to a rabbi asking him..."
Greg's widow story begins as an example of a desperate person being told to perform healing authority through prayer and appearance, setting up a Frankist lesson about exploiting the world's credulity.
Jiang reads the widow story as evidence that Frank despairs of persuading the world and instead teaches followers to exploit people's superstition, greed, and evil before those same people exploit you.
"you have written on your sub stack so there was a certain widow who had many children she came to a rabbi asking him..."
"and so what we need to do is come together as a new nation and conquer these people and lead them for their own..."
"against you and steal your money and they almost do okay so this world is evil and so you must accept people for who..."
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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