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Jiang accepts technical analysis and perspective-switching as part of art's effect: viewers do not just receive the image but move between the artist's position and their own.
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Analysis
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definition
Jiang defines reason as the act of dividing reality into categories, and says categorization is the precondition for reasoning anything out.
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diagnosis
Jiang explicitly names this hollow-versus-dense explanation as the product of logic and categorization, while also saying Dante is about to show why it fails.
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normative
Education should make students more thoughtful, moral, curious, imaginative, and capable of analyzing themselves and the world, not merely help them get grades or jobs.
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Sneako characterizes Jiang's method as analysis of how power actually works rather than moralizing about how states should behave.
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Jiang says slogans such as 'let's not do war' or 'let's all get along' do not explain why empire and conflict persist, so analysis must focus on underlying drivers rather than wishful morality.
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Jiang presents the Predictive History Substack as the venue where he publishes breaking geopolitical analysis focused on background and context rather than headline repetition.
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Jiang says his project is to analyze what happened before in order to understand what it means for the present.
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"I try and put myself in the shoes of the artist and ask why has he put a certain detail in the painting?"
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"Okay, right, so analysis. You do analysis, technical analysis, yes? Sure, right? So you're switching perspectives, okay? Sure. What else? Yes? Good, yes, okay?..."
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"Okay, all right. So this is hard, okay? But I need you guys to understand the difference between reason and imagination, okay? The central..."
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"...just saying from a logical perspective. We use categorization, right? In analysis, you get to this conclusion. Okay? If something is hollow, it does..."
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"...am bringing to my lectures. You're saying that this is just analysis. This is game theory, which is why maybe you're separate because you..."
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"possible for solutions to arise so you don't really speak about what should be rather you speak about what is it's really easy to..."
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"right like let's not do war let's not do Empire let's all just get along but"
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"that's not happening so why is that not happening and I of hearing what I was doing a preparation for this conversation they're saying..."
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"And what I want to show you, or what I promise you, is that if you learn game theory, there'll be three major benefits..."
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"So one benefit of learning game theory is you become smarter, and therefore you become a better person, okay? That's number one. Number two..."
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"...what it could lead to. So I do a lot of analysis. I just don't report the news. I try to give you the..."
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"...means for the present. OK, so I've done a lot of analysis, analysis of Middle Eastern history. And I believe that Pax Judica is..."
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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