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Canada's core identity is lack of ambition, because ambition would threaten peace with the United States and invite absorption by the American empire.
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Ambition
Canada's core identity is lack of ambition, because ambition would threaten peace with the United States and invite absorption by the American empire.
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Durkheim's account says Protestant anxiety transfers into wealth accumulation, but overexcited ambition has no natural stopping point and therefore cannot satisfy.
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The entire apology of David is described as focused on proving David's lack of ambition.
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Marcus Brutus cannot aid Decimus or march against Rome because doing so would make him the ambitious figure he accused Caesar of being.
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Caesar's ambition included a cult of personality and world-conquest plans against Parthia and Germania, but Jiang still frames his deeper motive as making Rome great again.
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The inheriting son is modeled as expansionist, risk-taking, obedience-seeking, selfish, and anxious to prove self-worth because the father's shadow makes every achievement appear derivative.
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Jiang predicts Alexander's ambition will be boundless: he will never stop expanding and never stop going to war.
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"You'd be surprised by how idiotic, by how incompetent the people in charge are. So let me explain to you why immigration is increasing,..."
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"...first, the core characteristic of the Canadian identity is lack of ambition, in order to maintain peace and stability with America. And if you're..."
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"...accumulation of wealth, okay? And this is a problem because overexcited ambitions always exceeds the results that they achieve, whatever these may be, because..."
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"You try to get more and more money to prove your worth to God, but you can't stop. You don't know when to stop,..."
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"...the entire apology of David is focused on the lack of ambition of David. Okay? So that's the first story. Let's look at the..."
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"Okay? And to compound the guilt, Caesar showered the people with generosity upon his death. Right? Okay? So, you can see how the death..."
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"He's the one who wants to become king. Right? Therefore, Marcus Brutus and Cassius could only wait for their deaths. Because if they're the..."
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"...He basically wanted to conquer the entire world. That was his ambition. His ambition was to make Rome great again. And he almost succeeded..."
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"We also said the son will be very different, okay? Because the son is inheriting this enterprise or this nation. The son will focus..."
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"...is, will he ever be happy? When will he stop his ambition? Never, okay? So, his ambition is boundless. So, these are the three..."
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"...be eliminated, okay? The third prediction we can make is his ambition is boundless. He will never stop expanding. He will never stop going..."
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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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