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Rome as Jiang’s name for an empire organized around war, obedience, and hatred rather than reflective civilization.
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anti-civilization
Rome as Jiang’s name for an empire organized around war, obedience, and hatred rather than reflective civilization.
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Glossary
America as a designed alternative to inherited civilization, meant to remedy civilizational prejudice and atrocity.
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Jiang argues that America was deliberately designed as an anti-civilization: a new Enlightenment government meant to overcome the prejudice and atrocity of older civilizations.
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America’s diversity, immigrant foundation, and need for openness make ordinary civilization impossible, so America creates a game rather than a civilization.
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America sees itself as a new civilization, but Jiang argues it is really an anti-civilization that becomes wealthy enough to conquer the world and export its game.
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"...the Jews, and the Greeks, and these are the three main civilizations after the Bronze Age collapse, and now we will emerge Rome to..."
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"...the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, there are now four major civilizations that are competing against each other for world domination. Last class we..."
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"...in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument we will look at today. All right...."
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"...okay does that make sense okay this is the nature of civilization throughout most of human history now this is a problem for America..."
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"...so that's what America is America sees itself as a new civilization but it's really an anti -civilization because it's really a game and..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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