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He frames the whole human cognitive system as socially oriented: it is designed for cooperation, competition, and interaction with others.
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Competition
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Key Notes
definition
Jiang seizes on Guido's question about hearts set on goods that cannot be shared and approves the student gloss that this describes zero-sum competition.
diagnosis
Jiang says modern schooling trains children into endless competition, funnels them through more elite competition, and likely leaves them unhappy even when they succeed.
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Jiang links the ruthless competition of Florence in Dante to modern competitive behavior such as hiding a classmate's admission letter, arguing that rivalry turns even friends into enemies.
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Jiang models meritocracy as a race where the morally correct response is to stop for the injured runner, but the actual response is to smile and keep going.
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Jiang opens the closing list by treating meritocracy as intense competition over fewer and fewer resources within a declining order.
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He identifies transnational capital as globally dominant and says it faces opposition from nationalism, religion/Orthodoxy, and technology-based forces in the four-state rivalry.
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In Jiang's workshop example, team rankings reverse because first-place teams become arrogant and stop reflecting, while last-place teams adapt.
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"So, yeah, so the memories are divided into emotional values. You remember what has emotional value unless you use brute memorization to remember useless..."
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"Okay, sorry, we'll stop. We're running out of time. But I'll ask you one more question, and then we'll end today. What does it..."
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"Yes? Humans are obsessed with zero -sum games. Exactly."
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"But explain to everyone else what this means. So"
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"it means your actions, if you are operating in a sphere where there is a limited amount of resources, there has to be winners..."
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"we don't there's something deeper though yeah I mean like okay I mean like let's think about how schools work nowadays right kids go..."
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"...major issue at this time in history in Florence is the competition among people so that they think that they're all enemies. Even friends..."
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"It's like killing him twice. Because, like, your only consolation if you're burning in hell is, well, at least my son is doing well..."
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"What a meritocracy ultimately is. Imagine a race. Okay. Imagine a race and everyone's running as fast as they can. The person next to..."
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"...for example the idea of a meritocracy which is an intense competition for few and fewer uh uh resources you have access and arrogance..."
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"Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the..."
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"Okay, so let's just list them the first is of course nationalism right there are people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin who believe..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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