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Jiang argues that Mark Zuckerberg can count as a modern sower of discord because social media replaces consensus-building with isolated bubbles and combative argument.
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Consensus
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Jiang contrasts earlier mass media with platform culture by saying the evening news tried to build community and consensus, whereas social media rewards beating the other side.
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Jiang treats the joint Russia-China principles as a package of open trade, sovereignty, consensus-based decision-making, U.N. authority, and civilizational pluralism that refuses to rank one civilization above another.
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Jiang says the old American-led order looked multilateral because a tight social club of transatlantic elites shared schools, manners, spaces, and assumptions while making real decisions behind the scenes.
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Alexander says a healthy political system is one that can conduct dissent, argue internally, and still reach consensus and decisions, whereas a system that demands constant agreement is one that will decay.
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Jiang argues that the US political system rests on consensus, norms, and shared values, making it vulnerable when a political actor ignores those norms rather than violating clearly enforceable laws.
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"have to be like turning one into two it can be turning one into multiple scatter well no no the"
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"...the evening news and evening news was a place to build consensus to build community with social media you just go you live in..."
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"...trade. Okay? Maintaining sovereignty of different nations. Maintaining decision -making through consensus. Okay?"
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"Parliament of the United Nations. Maintaining authority of the UN. And respecting the civilizations of each different nation -state. So, refusing to prioritize one..."
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"...was able to make an illusion that it is a multilateral consensus because the people in charge were good friends with each other. They..."
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"...with itself and even an argument and then come to a consensus and a decision is a healthy system a system where everybody is..."
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"...so yeah, the US the US political system is built on consensus on norms on certain values that people share together. So you have..."
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"...In the future, do you think humanity risk losing a shared consensus reality altogether? And if so, what anchors human consciousness when billions of..."
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"...was a conspiracy well not conspiracy but but there was a consensus that this guy needed need to be gotten rid of but then..."
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"...about what the Americans are trying to do right now the consensus seems to be the Americans first want to control the Shirt of..."
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"...so they are determined to maintain hegemony. And this is a consensus among all Washington elite."
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"Yeah. And unfortunately, I think it's a dangerous consensus that leads us in the wrong direction. Let me finish up with a couple of..."
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