He argues most elites are incapable of imagining collapse because they are focused on preserving rank and defeating rivals, and even bunker-building does not solve the problem that their status may evaporate in real breakdown.
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Bunkers
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Extreme wealth produces immortality projects, bunkers, secret-society interest, and Satan worship because wealthy people are afraid to die and lose their accumulated capital.
Jiang rejects bunker individualism as the primary answer to collapse and instead says survival depends on rebuilding local community so neighbors actively care about one another's plight.
He says oligarchs are retreating into bubbles and treating bunker construction as their answer to the coming crisis, but he argues that hiding underground will not save them from the wave of political upheaval.
Jiang says Dr. Strangelove reveals how American elites think: faced with nuclear danger, they imagine saving themselves in bunkers rather than preventing the catastrophe.
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"so, um, yeah. Chris just asked about the baby boomers. What are they leading China doing to prepare for the global collapse? What are..."
"...that collapse is possible, and that's why they're building up these bunkers. The question, though, is, you know, their power derives from the fact..."
"Well, I'm not sure. The bunkers will actually be helpful. What I think we need is to rebuild a sense of community where neighbors..."
"...the coming political crises that's obvious to everyone is to build bunkers, right, just to hide underground until whatever wave of political revolution washes..."
"In fact, if you look at the brain of a psychopath. In the brain of a wealthy person, it's pretty similar, okay? Yeah, they..."
"So, he's trying to figure out how to live forever, okay? So, he'll do things like blood transfusion. But you know, he has, he..."
"...to live longer. But you also do what? You also build bunkers, okay? Because you're afraid that the world will end and you want..."
"...So they're willing to try blood transfusion, they're willing to build bunkers, they're also willing to join secret societies. And that's why you see..."
"...do? And their solution is, oh, we'll go and we'll build bunkers. We'll turn these mines into bunkers. We'll hide there, and we'll have..."
"They're all selfish. They're all narrow -minded. They're all arrogant. They're all suffering from hubris. And so that's what's happening in America. Rather than..."
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