A Canadian civil religion of regulatory authority, expertise, and obedience that blocks entrepreneurship and individual initiative.
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bureaucratism
A Canadian civil religion of regulatory authority, expertise, and obedience that blocks entrepreneurship and individual initiative.
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Key Notes
Jiang's term for Confucianism as a religion or ideology legitimizing rule by bureaucratic scholar-officials.
Canada's three sustaining religions are environmentalism, multiculturalism, and bureaucratism; they support a low-ambition, regulated, open society dependent on immigration.
Confucianism is, in Jiang's answer, a religion of bureaucratism designed to make bureaucratic society seem best, sophisticated, and legitimate.
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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..."
"...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..."
"The first, as I said, is resource exploitation, but sustainable, limited resources. But the main driver of the Canadian economy is immigration. Canada allows..."
"...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..."
"...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..."
"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..."
"...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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