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As regions consolidate, separate hero stories consolidate too; bureaucratic priests then add moral messages so stories control the people and discipline the king.
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Consolidation
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"Okay? And that's how you justify your kingship through these acts of heroism that's related to you in stories. Okay? That's the first step...."
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"Okay? And then over time what happens is that these stories become consolidated combined together to form a new story okay? Harvard's most legendary..."
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"...and a great leader emerges. And then you have a constant consolidation. And then maybe 20 years, 30 years later, civil war again. So..."
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"...had the rise of neoliberalism which allowed for the congregation the consolidation of wealth in the 1%. You also had globalization so wealth was..."
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"...Recently, Trump announced a national security strategy which called for the consolidation of the Western Hemisphere under American rule, what he calls a corollary..."
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"...at Thomas Piketty, and you have the monopolization of capital, the consolidation of capital in America, where not only a few companies account for,..."
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"...investment banking were kept separate. And this led to a massive consolidation of the financial industry. And so these banks became too big to..."
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"...projects. Okay? So in the beginning of the empire there's massive consolidation of innovation which leads to tremendous innovation. Okay? But over time what..."
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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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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