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Jiang maps four current civilizational traditions to four dominant narrative themes: America to individual freedom and ambition, Russia to community and orthodoxy, Iran to sacrifice and eschatology, and Israel to covenant and history.
"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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