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The capacity to identify with others and change the world together; Jiang says modern individualism disables it.
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collective action
The capacity to identify with others and change the world together; Jiang says modern individualism disables it.
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Glossary
The only way to change the world in Jiang's model; modern individualism prevents it by privatizing problems.
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The social capacity Jiang says the cult of the self disables, especially in contrast to communism's appeal.
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Shared political or social action that the cult of the self makes people incapable of performing.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that Indian students in Canada are economically exploited while Indians as a group are becoming unusually effective in Canadian politics because of democratic organizing skills.
diagnosis
Power prefers the scientific-individual worldview because it makes people easier to control, makes them work harder, and makes them blame themselves rather than society.
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The second worldview creates powerlessness by preventing collective action: if problems are inside the individual, people cannot identify with others or change society together.
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A worldview that locates all problems inside the individual prevents collective identification and collective action.
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Jiang argues that modern art spread in part because it served liberal individualism and opposed collective action during the Cold War.
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The cult of the self is said to make collective action impossible by teaching that the self is the source of everything.
model
He says the AI should generate scenarios for shared problems like climate change and war so people can agree on actions and stick together.
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"They want 100 million people, 100 million people in Canada by the year 2100. And guess what? The majority of these people are gonna..."
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"You have these viral videos online where you have thousands and thousands thousands of Indian students lining up for hours and hours because they're..."
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"...at organizing. They're very good at organizing. They're very good at collective action. And that's what leads them to excel in the Canadian political..."
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"So, the problem with number two is you're incapable of collective action because you think all the source of your problem is the individual..."
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"Okay? Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So, why do we make this transition? What's..."
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"So the problem with number two is you are incapable of collective action because you think all sorts of your problems will change the..."
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"All right? So in the second system, no, no, I have control over my own life. So I need to work hard. Okay? So..."
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"...around the world. It's very popular among people. It calls for collective action. So the capitalist West, the powers that be, they're spreading Freud,..."
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"...you are the source of everything, then you're not capable of collective action. So in many ways, this is a response to a problem..."
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"As long as you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. Okay. This idea of positive psychology, right, that we have today. Carl Jung and..."
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"...around it, and I think, from a character's perspective, it's the collective action. One of the things that happened is that we think that..."
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"...which scenario we want. And therefore, we can agree on what action to take. Okay? So, this AI has to be part of a..."
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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