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A multicultural imperial condition that Jiang links to Byzantine access to many cultures but low creativity.
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cosmopolitan
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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"...Christian. It was multicultural. The word we can also use is cosmopolitan. Okay? Also, it was bureaucratic. The Byzantines were not a very creative..."
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"...than you if you live in the countryside if you are cosmopolitan you travel to many countries you're gonna be create more creative than..."
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"...become much more globalized, has become much more international. Much more cosmopolitan, but this is not part of the Chinese tradition."
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"...that the future divisions in the world would be between the cosmopolitans or globalists versus the nationalists or patriots so i thought it was..."
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"...of the united states uh it's within this rivalry between the cosmopolitans and the uh and the nationalists it's uh it belongs to the..."
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"...system takes the GCC and turns it into this seemingly vibrant cosmopolitan, wealthy center."
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"...Dubai, for many years, has prided itself as this safe, very cosmopolitan, very open tax haven. So a lot of wealthy people immigrated to..."
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"...Jerusalem aren't happy about this, so they're very conservative. Okay. Okay. Cosmopolitan tradition. All right. So these are two vastly different visions for Israel,..."
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"...at the height of its glory, when it was an open, cosmopolitan, creative, innovative empire. And that's what they want Israel to be. The..."
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"...world and when Britain became an empire it didn't become more cosmopolitan it didn't become much more deep and insightful it just spread its..."
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"...in Israel. Tel Aviv is the western looking, the open, the cosmopolitan, the secular, democratic version or face of Israel. Jerusalem is the inward..."
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"...the state of Israel. There's Tel Aviv, which is the open, cosmopolitan, democratic Israel. It's the Ashkenazi Israel. It's the European Israel. Then you..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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