Glossary
Jiang's preferred post-nation-state political unit, treated as a more natural scale of human organization and the next object of the host's democracy question.
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city-state
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "we're heading back towards a time of the city -state and I think the city -state is much more natural phenomenon than the nation..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "we're heading back towards a time of the city -state and I think the city -state is much more natural phenomenon than the nation..."
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Jiang predicts that political organization is more likely to return to the city-state, which he regards as a more natural human form than the nation-state.
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Jiang predicts that a city-state future will generally be more democratic, liberal, and agency-rich than the nation-state era because smaller polities need active participation from their members.
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Jiang says the city-state will likely remain the main future unit of organization, but he also expects more diverse and ephemeral formations to matter, including multinationals, military cartels, and religions.
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"we're heading back towards a time of the city -state and I think the city -state is much more natural phenomenon than the nation..."
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"do you think those city -states will be their most successful when they're Democratic or is Singapore a really good example of"
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"...a good analogy um it's a Greek polis right the Greek city states and you will have diversity of government but you will definitely..."
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"that's a great question so when I think of city -states I think in terms of geography but you're actually right in that you..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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