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Jiang says national decline comes from elite overproduction, where competing vested interests become so absorbed in internal conflict that they will destroy their own civilization to win.
He says contemporary geopolitics can be read as a conflict among these four narrative traditions, with no clear answer yet about which story-form will prevail.
"i mean the problem with this metaphor of an individual who thinks he's fat and wants to change is you need to recognize that..."
"Okay. So I think that the best civilizations, the strongest civilizations are those that have stories that are universal, that they're able to connect..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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