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12 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: backwards

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Backward

Jiang rejects the categories backward and primitive, saying the course should show that those labels are not real explanations.

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Course-method statement in the 2024-09-10 lecture

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Jiang rejects the categories backward and primitive, saying the course should show that those labels are not real explanations.

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The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

Transcript

"...And, and now, you know, looking through the. you know looking backwards you see how he was demonized only when he started to do..."

The Nearest War Wins

2026-03-19, day precision · Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity

Transcript

"...as one between progress and tradition, right? Going forward or staying backward, right? So that is... So people in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem would..."

The Empire Loses By Winning

2026-03-05, day precision · Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry

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"...rural areas. The rural areas were very religious, very poor, very backward. And the urban areas were educated, secular, and progressive, okay? And so..."

Communism As Capitalism's Weapon

2026-01-29, day precision · Game Theory #8: Communist Specter

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"...he thinks that China and Russia don't really matter, because they're backward, they're agricultural, they have monarchies, okay? So, it doesn't really fit into..."

The Borderland Becomes the Empire

2025-11-20, day precision · Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World

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"...on fertile ground okay and then over here is this poor backward and isolated people called the Qing and these were Barbarians okay so..."

The Bible as an Imperial Script

2025-11-18, day precision · Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews

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"...but they did not. It was the Qing, the isolated, marginalized, backward state that came to conquer. And so the question is, why did..."

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The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War

2024-09-10, day precision · claims

Reading

Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.

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