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Jiang says repeated content from the prior civilization series is intentional because he is reanalyzing history from the angle of secret societies and building a different overarching thesis.
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Jiang says his own view, developed in the civilization series, is that human beings were mostly peaceful for much of history and that war is a later construct rather than an original human condition.
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"...and that's why societies collapse how similar is this series to civilization series okay so the comment is that I'm using a lot of..."
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"the slant the over thesis has changed okay and I'm and I'm going over a lot of this information in order to build a..."
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"...a great question. Um, like when you if you watch my civilization series, I make the argument that, you know, for us to be..."
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"...for my geo strategy series. Some people are here for my civilization series and they want philosophy. They want history. So I mean, like,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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