Jiang presents Brzezinski and the Trilateral Commission as structurally similar to Pike's world rather than genealogically descended from it: one need not read Pike or be a Freemason to converge on power, order, and control through religious-political justification.
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Brzezinski
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The Brzezinski passage imagines technological managerialism as a political future in which a dominant party, doctrinal factions, scientific planning, charismatic leadership, and mass media help transform the United States into a highly controlled society.
Jiang says the Brzezinski passage, though written in the 1970s, maps uncannily onto present-day America and should be read as more than prophecy, almost as a plan for what the United States is becoming.
The Brzezinski passage defines Marxism as a further creative stage in man's universal vision, a victory of the external active man over the inner passive man, and a triumph of reason over belief that emphasizes humanity's power to shape material destiny.
Jiang argues that it is astonishing for Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, at the height of the Cold War, to frame democracy as bad and Marxism as good, and he reads this as elite preference for the endpoint of history rather than loyalty to democratic America.
Jiang says Brzezinski's Between Two Ages praises Marxist-style expert management and effectively outlines an AI surveillance state.
The host argues that the United States' post-1945 hegemony was such a singular concentration of power that the world should not assume any later hegemon can simply repeat it.
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"...it is to Albert Pike. Now, I don't think that Zednev Brzezinski read Albert Pike. And he himself is probably not a Freemason. But,..."
"Can you read, Alan? The emergence of a large dominant party, alongside the more narrowly focused and more intensively doctrinal groupings on the right..."
"inclinations of the doctrinal left to legitimize means by ends could lead them to justify more social control on the ground that it serves..."
"So this book is written in the 1970s, okay? This is like 40, 50 years ago. What's amazing about this paragraph is that it..."
"Can you read slower, please, Alan, okay? You don't have to rush. Yeah. Just read slower. Keep on going. That is why Marxism represents..."
"Okay, stop. Okay, all right. So this is an amazing passage, okay? This is the guy who was National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter...."
"...a book 1970 book called between two ages by Zevaniyev uh Brzezinski who was a national security advisor to uh Jimmy Carter and he's..."
"...a position to replace the United States and this is something Brzezinski wrote in the 1990s as well that is that the US global..."
"very unique circumstance in history the fact that we built a whole ideology around the idea that it would be permanent is just beyond..."
"...All right? Okay. So, now let's move on. This is Zednev Brzezinski, and he was national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, who was president..."
"...He's probably never read Albert Pike. He's probably never read Zbigniew Brzezinski. Okay? But he's one of the most powerful men in America because..."
"...it is techno marxism in fact if you um read zebaniyev brzezinski between two ages uh and he writes about the coming of the..."
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