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He says his book-writing process requires meditation, discussion, experimentation, intuition, imagination, and long walks rather than simply sitting for ten hours a day.
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Jiang says he plans to write a book, has published two books before, has an audience, and understands the publishing process, but refuses to rush because he wants to create the best possible book.
He says his book-writing process requires meditation, discussion, experimentation, intuition, imagination, and long walks rather than simply sitting for ten hours a day.
Writing does three things for early Israel: legitimacy, unity, and differentiation.
Empire produces bureaucracy, and bureaucracy has three anti-innovative features: centralization, censorship, and writing as propaganda rather than knowledge creation.
Communal recitation matters because writing should be tested against the feelings and reactions of others, unlike solitary modern writing.
The Greek writing system changes toward the alphabet as part of the post-collapse transition.
Writing and mythology arise in this account to record temple-economy obligations and to make an unnatural hierarchy look divinely ordained.
Sumeria becomes the first major civilization because its trade position connects surrounding civilizations and forces people to coordinate, invent writing, and develop technology.
"...past before. I've published two books, so I know the book writing process. I'm an agent, so it won't be hard for me to..."
"Okay. All right. Listen. All right. Very simple. Remember this one. Writing. What is writing? Writing does three things. First is legitimacy. Okay? To..."
"...express what they want. All information is centralized. The third is writing as propaganda. So writing is a system of control, as opposed to..."
"...thing you do is when you write you will recite your writings to everyone so you understand what the reaction is it comes from..."
"...other. That's the first thing. Second thing that's important is the writing system changes. It went from linear B. Linear B becomes linear B...."
"And because of this economy, now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets..."
"We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing..."
"...is what we call Samaria, Samar, okay? And this is where writing was invented. Okay? And this is where a lot of trade happened,..."
"...why Samaria was the first major civilization, okay? And they invented writing, as well as irrigation, as well as a lot of technology. And..."
"...come together to trade, to interact, that they create their own writing system. Okay? So if I were to take different people from the..."
"Enuma Elesh means, fall up high. So it's a Bible, basically. It's like what God told us. And this is a story of the..."
"...down, for propaganda purposes. Now what's interesting is that, there's different writing systems around the world. So in Mesopotamia, they have these K tablets,..."
A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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