Jiang advances a control-grid theory: manufacturing fear and economic shocks helps elites increase social compliance.
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Anxiety Engineering
Jiang advances a control-grid theory: manufacturing fear and economic shocks helps elites increase social compliance.
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"The peasants have become too uppity. And so you need to make them much more anxious. You need to make them much more desperate...."
"Well, that's what Colonel Towner Watkins says, and she's brilliant. And she talks about this as the strategy of tension. And these left -behind..."
"Right. So if we just extend our logic, right, and just say, you know, we're going to have a war. Okay. During this war,..."
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