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Jiang says most people, especially older people, will fail to make the mental shift into a multipolar world and many will effectively die rather than accept a new reality.
Jiang says most people will remain materialistic and will not survive because they refuse to adapt, believe a new world is coming, or change their minds.
Jiang warns that expecting the Iran war to settle quickly and restore the old world is fantasy; the unipolar moment has ended and the choice is adaptation or death.
In Jiang's workshop example, team rankings reverse because first-place teams become arrogant and stop reflecting, while last-place teams adapt.
The best student and worst student are both likely to succeed for opposite reasons, but the worst student's adaptation, hard work, relationships, and team-building make him especially powerful.
Jiang argues Soviet adaptability in World War II was partly enabled by the purges, while German doctrine became brittle once its initial plan failed.
Culture persists more deeply than material modernization; a person from ancient China would adapt to modern China because the core cultural rules remain intelligible.
A modern Chinese person in Germany would remain a cultural stranger despite knowing modern technology because cultural fit matters more than surface skills.
"Yeah, this is a great question. And unfortunately, the reality is that most people will not be able to make this mental shift, especially..."
"Professor, any final thoughts on all of the things we talked about today? And, I mean, I just keep coming back to this economic..."
"No, I think, like, the greatest challenge is for people to, like, switch their mindsets. Because people are so complacent nowadays. You know, I..."
"Look, I hope I'm wrong, okay? On the internet, people call me an idiot. I hope I'm an idiot, okay? But I also think..."
"Professor, great to see you. Thank you so much. And I really appreciate you staying up late with us there in China. Thank you..."
"So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the..."
"Okay. They refuse to change their minds. Okay. Any more questions?"
"So you need to cause a national spiritual rejuvenation in your country. And if you are, in the gray, you might have issues, okay?..."
"You're living in a fantasy world. You have to wake up and recognize that this is the end of the unipolar moment. We're moving..."
"And the reality is that most of us will not be able to live in the world. We're not going to be able to..."
"third major trend, which is the most troubling, is re -militarization because Pax Americana is dead and Pax Judaica is not interested in protecting..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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