Glossary
The American-led postwar game that Jiang says expanded wealth and population but became unstable and unsustainable.
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consumer capitalism
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model
America's nation-state theory is described as a game in which the Constitution and government act as game masters and immigrants can become rich by working hard.
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diagnosis
He identifies postwar American consumer capitalism as a unique system that grew the global population from about two billion to about eight billion and generated enormous wealth, including in China.
prediction
He predicts that because the consumer-capitalist system is unstable and there are too many people, at least half of humanity will die in World War III.
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"So the French, their theory was the social contract. The Germans, their theory is iron and blood. Okay? Race. The Americans had a different..."
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"...other anymore. Okay? And so America created this game, right, called capitalism, consumer capitalism, in which we live in today. And this system is..."
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"...in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? But unfortunately, we've now reached a point where the system..."
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"...what he argues is that. What happens in society is that capitalism transitions from face to face to face. In the beginning, you have..."
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"...money are not the same thing. So in the first phase, consumer capitalism. You focus on the generation of wealth. In financial capitalism. You..."
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"...a famous book called Tragedy and Hope. And he argues that capitalism goes in phases. The first phase is consumer capitalism, where companies are..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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