Glossary
A Canadian civil religion of regulatory authority, expertise, and obedience that blocks entrepreneurship and individual initiative.
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bureaucratism
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Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's term for Confucianism as a religion or ideology legitimizing rule by bureaucratic scholar-officials.
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Canada's three sustaining religions are environmentalism, multiculturalism, and bureaucratism; they support a low-ambition, regulated, open society dependent on immigration.
definition
Confucianism is, in Jiang's answer, a religion of bureaucratism designed to make bureaucratic society seem best, sophisticated, and legitimate.
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"The first, as I said, is resource exploitation, but sustainable, limited resources. But the main driver of the Canadian economy is immigration. Canada allows..."
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"...further problems in Canada. And the... The third major religion is bureaucratism, right? Because if you don't have your own ethnic identity, if you..."
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"...we can understand if your three religions are environmentalism, multiculturalism, and bureaucratism, well, then there's only one solution. You can't exploit resources because of..."
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"...is, is a religion. And one way to explain Confucianism is bureaucratism. I can't even spell bureaucrat anymore, okay? Bureaucratism. Okay? What I mean..."
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"...so this is so the idea of Confucianism is that it's bureaucratism it's designed to legitimize and give authority to the bureaucratic elite right..."
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"You can't encourage entrepreneurship because of your religion of bureaucratism. You don't want to reduce the regulatory state. You don't want to promote individual..."
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"...far is the idea of federalism, okay? Or they can say bureaucratism. But it's the idea that a foreign power, Brussels, mandates rules that..."
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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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