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The isolation of the modern individual that the nation solves by supplying shared identity and community.
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alienation
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
Key Notes
Glossary
Lack of freedom under regulated, repetitive city life.
Glossary
Marx's account of capitalism separating humans from labor, self, nature, and humanity.
Glossary
The condition in which capitalism reduces a complex human being to production value and generates bitterness, depression, and political questioning.
definition
Capital is monetized power, and its problem is that it exploits, alienates, and consolidates.
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The only result of capitalism, in Jiang’s model, is massive inequality, corruption, immorality, alienation, anger, and indifference.
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Over-bureaucratization produces quiet quitting and lying flat because workers feel alienated, powerless, overworked, and machine-like inside organizations.
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The nation is the most emotionally powerful solution because it fuses religion and politics while solving the modern individual's alienation through community.
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He defines alienation as powerlessness and lack of agency under changes too fast for people to control, and disenchantment as dehumanization into a machine-like existence.
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Jiang presents Marx's psychological appeal as the claim that human beings are happier when hardship gives them collective purpose than when prosperity leaves them isolated.
model
Marx's account of alienation says capitalism replaces creative social affirmation with exchange value, wage labor, specialization, environmental exploitation, and competition.
model
For Jiang's Marx, money destroys human relations because it replaces intrinsic affirmation with extrinsic payment.
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"And but, you know, towards the end, I was struggling because I really didn't know what to do with my life. The default option..."
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"Did I really want to accrue well for myself? And from application, they can test for that, right? These admissions officers, these professors, they're..."
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"And if you're useful to them, then you become part of a plan. If you're not useful to them, then they just ignore you...."
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"He's not part of this club. He went to the wrong schools. He hanged out with the wrong people. And he's like a mafioso...."
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"And these are people like Miriam Adelson, Jeff Bezos. And there's only a few dozen of them, but they control 80 % of the..."
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"...with the corruption? How do you deal with the disconnect, the alienation of the people? And that's a fundamental issue that needs to be..."
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"So, is this clear? All right? So, once you have a universally accepted currency, you have the basis for globalization and globalization happens naturally..."
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"...result of capitalism is one, massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay? And alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world we live in today. It..."
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"So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it..."
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"...still isolated from others. Okay it still creates a problem of alienation and the nation solves this problem. Right because the nation has to..."
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"...not sure if your values can confront the future okay also alienation alienation just means a sense of power layer of powerlessness lessness okay..."
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"...you both go to jail. So it's confusing for people, okay? Alienation means that you have absolutely no freedom in the city. You work..."
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