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A mature empire becomes insular, secretive, and monopolistic, which Jiang says kills innovation.
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Bureaucracy as monopoly
A mature empire becomes insular, secretive, and monopolistic, which Jiang says kills innovation.
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"...insular. Okay? Then it becomes secretive. And then it becomes a monopoly. That's what a bureaucracy is. Okay? You guys understand? Okay? All right?..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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