Glossary
In Jiang’s palace-economy model, bureaucratic control over what can be expressed, producing centralized propaganda.
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censorship
In Jiang’s palace-economy model, bureaucratic control over what can be expressed, producing centralized propaganda.
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Glossary
The scholar-official function of controlling how people thought and blocking independent thinking.
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prediction
He predicts Iran will probably win the war, but that winning requires focus, clarity, and resolve translated into unity, censorship, militarization, and total war.
diagnosis
Propaganda undermines strategy by censoring dissent and preventing rigorous debate, which produces hubris and repeated bad decisions.
diagnosis
In a centralized palace economy, bureaucrats control expression, censor content, centralize speech, and create propaganda.
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After collapse removes centralized censorship, Homer can emerge.
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Jiang says YouTube censorship limits what he can say and motivates a possible move to Rumble and a Discord space for more direct community exchange.
normative
Jiang reads Kant as defending an absolutist understanding of freedom of expression, including speech others might hate, because censorship denies people's capacity to judge.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues China did not produce a Homer or great thinker because scholar officials feared independent thinking and used censorship to control how people thought.
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"Okay? So by studying the escalation ladder, we discover that Iran has far more advantages than the United States. Okay? All right. So what..."
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"Okay? The second thing, clarity, is to censor people, censorship. And we're already seeing that in Israel where you're not allowed to film military..."
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"No, you become dumber because you become lazy. Right? Same thing with technology. You would think that with the most advanced weaponry in the..."
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"Right? You need people to voice dissenting opinions. But if you control the information landscape, what you can do is censor. And that's what..."
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"...And the big, the third big change is you go from censorship. Okay. Because remember, in a policy economy, in a centralized system, bureaucrats..."
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"talk about is, some of you have been curious as to how I've been able to so accurately predict the contours of this war...."
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"...really careful about what I say in order to avoid YouTube censorship. I'll probably at some point move to Rumble where I'll be more..."
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"So the link to my Discord server called Predictive History it's in the description. So please click on that and please join the server..."
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"bring and Lenement to main kind he is arguing for absolute freedom of expression okay even if it's hate speech in you say racist..."
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"...official, what you're most afraid of is independent thinking, okay? So censorship, censorship was their main role, okay? Controlling how people thought through censorship..."
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"...You can't have that. So that's why it's important to have censorship. That's why it's important to de -platform people. That's why you have..."
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"...ever more obvious and ever more drastic uh uh repression and censorship because they"
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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