Glossary
Common purpose and unity that let a people remain strong under pressure.
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cohesion
Common purpose and unity that let a people remain strong under pressure.
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Key Notes
Glossary
Seeing oneself as part of a community whose growth matters.
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prediction
If U.S. civil war begins, Jiang expects it to last for centuries in varying intensity, with Texas favored by cohesion, energy, and openness.
diagnosis
Bombing Tehran and other cities turns urban and rural Iranians from internal opponents into a more cohesive society oriented against America and Israel.
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diagnosis
Protestant or Calvinist England and the Dutch Republic are presented as becoming energetic, open, cohesive, trade-oriented societies in contrast with Catholic Spain.
normative
Jiang says societies avoid easy money from gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, or money laundering because immorality destroys energy, openness, cohesion, and the soul.
definition
Jiang defines a society's dynamism through energy, openness, and cohesion: willingness to work toward a goal, humility and resilience, and readiness to act as a sacrificing team.
model
To forecast conquest, Jiang says to compare which areas are energetic, open, and cohesive against which empires are corrupt, insular, and divided.
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Poverty alone does not cause success; a poor society must become open, energetic, and cohesive to move from poverty to wealth.
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model
A poor or defeated society becomes energetic and cohesive when a great leader emerges to unify it, as Genghis Khan did for the divided Mongols.
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"And you can tell because of their actions, in that you're absolutely right in that, okay, if you're Australia and you don't have any..."
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"...Okay, so if you just use our game theory formula, okay? Cohesion, energy, and openness, and you ask yourself, okay, let's just look at..."
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"The economies will suffer a great deal. Societies will suffer a great deal. Texas will emerge as a clear winner in any conflict, okay?..."
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"...this. An empire, it's fractured. So if you're able to maintain cohesion, if people are able to remain united, if they're able to have..."
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"Why? Because the major conflict in Iran for many decades was the conflict between the urban areas and the rural areas. The rural areas..."
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"...are slowly becoming a much more energetic, open, and cohesive society. Cohesion, okay? And now that you have this differentiation, what's going to happen..."
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"decide to join forces with the Catholic Emperor the French 너무 pouquinho okay so I want to show very quickly show you the difference..."
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"...society, you need morality in order to create energy, openness, and cohesion, right? People want to feel as though there's a part of something..."
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"That we're striving for a higher cause. And if you're all about slavery or prostitution or gambling or money laundering, people won't feel good..."
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"...in the end okay these three metrics are energy openness and cohesion okay cohesion it's just follows the idea of a by sign out..."
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"...other are they a family okay so that's the idea of cohesion openness is a very important concept and openness just means how willing..."
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"Same thing happened with the Macedonians, right? The Macedonians came in and helped one city -state, then they conquered one city -state and moved..."
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