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12 timestamped hits 2 source readings 3 extracted notes Aliases: bretton-wood, wood, woods

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Bretton Woods

The conference Jiang presents as establishing the American world game through the U.S.

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Key Notes

Lecture reconstruction as of 2026-01-27.

model

Bretton Woods establishes the world game by making the U.S. dollar the reserve currency, with other currencies deriving value through their relationship to it.

1945-1971 monetary sequence in the lecture

evidence

The U.S. dollar's reserve role moves from gold backing at Bretton Woods to Nixon's 1971 break and petrodollar demand through oil pricing.

Timestamped Evidence

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision 路 Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"...one day you there's ten of you and you're all collecting wood and then suddenly you're attacked by a hundred flesh -eating monkeys there's..."

Kill The God, Take The Empire

2025-04-08, day precision 路 Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World

Transcript

"...that's a disaster then they try to make men out of wood and that doesn't work either so then they try corn maze okay..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

America Is A Game

2026-01-27, day precision 路 glossary, claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...

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