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Intermarried elites reach equilibrium above the states, turning warfare from innovation into population control and court politics into factional struggle over hierarchy.
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Court Politics
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Jiang says aging rulers are also sustained by entourages whose own power depends on the leader staying alive and in office.
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"innovations happen when it happened during the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay..."
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"intermarry with each other okay they have a new equilibrium so they are above the above the state does it make sense guys all..."
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"...the top of this hierarchy. And as a result, you create court politics, right? Court politics, or factional struggle, factions, okay? Doesn't make sense,..."
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"I mean, we sort of like underestimate the possibility. How of the human will and human faith. So I understand like these leaders are..."
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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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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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