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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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Competition
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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He says social players fear ostracism or exile from the group, so they try to beat others while also avoiding behavior that gets them thrown out of the game.
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Mesopotamia is more resilient than Egypt, China, or the Indus Valley because constant invasion and competition have already trained it for instability.
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Elites create distinctive monuments and myths partly to prove their own civilization's superiority over neighboring civilizations while still being caught in shared influence networks.
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Yale functions as the Hunger Games: a zero-sum competition among the most competitive people in the world, extending through classes, clubs, secret societies, graduate school, and scholarships.
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Middle-class society creates anxiety because status is unstable, uncertainty because wealth can vanish, and competition because status must be earned rather than inherited.
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Dutch middle-class life is driven by anxiety over salvation, uncertainty over war and trade, and competition with other wealthy people.
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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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"So in other words, what's happening is that There's a civil war going on in the world where right now transnational capital is Dominant..."
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"...And I would give them resources. And it would be a competition. Okay? So, for example, let's look at which team can build the..."
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"...then, number two, and then day two, we would start the competition again with a new assignment. On day two, which team would finish..."
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"yeah. Okay. According to game theory, what happens is team ten wins. And this is exactly what happens. The results are reversed. Okay? Number..."
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"That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to..."
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"Australization. Okay? Or basically just exile. Where you are no longer part of the group. They kick you out as a player. Okay? That's..."
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"resilient of all the four major civilizations and the reason why is Mesopotamia for its history is constantly at war okay so Egypt is..."
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"that's a really good question so it's almost impossible for us to answer how much they influence each other okay because even if they..."
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"because it's all very discretionary, so basically, it's all intuition, okay, they don't have a formula for this, they just think, this guy is..."
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"...you read the book, The Hunger Games? It is a relentless competition. Because once you're in Yale, you're still competing. Okay? But now you're..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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