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Alexander uses this for the part of Zelensky's behavior that is not just performative deception but sincere refusal to face defeat.
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delusion
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The standard economics explanation says bubbles pop because collective optimism becomes delusion, like gravity pulling down what flew too high.
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The host argues that Western policymakers are trapped in an escalation-control delusion, believing they can intensify confrontation with Russia and still return to the old equilibrium if it fails.
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He argues that Russia's invasion of Ukraine should have shattered elite confidence because it exposed the gap between Western assumptions and geopolitical reality, but the elite doubled down on the belief that Ukraine would still win.
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Alexander says Zelensky is misleading everybody about battlefield reality, with the larger share being deliberate deception and a smaller share being genuine delusion.
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"All right, so just keep this in mind, guys. All right, so let's look at, very quickly, the main explanation for why booms and..."
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"...uninterrupted booms, like the one in the 1920s, produce a collective delusion. Optimism becomes a drug or a religion or some combination of both...."
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"Okay, so again, this is a science book. It's a set explanation for why there's a bubble burst, because it's delusional, and then it's..."
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"...way things were. Again this goes into the whole. Escalation control delusion. I don't think these people know. Exactly what they have started. But..."
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"And this and this became extremely, extremely insular. The elite became extremely insular after the Russians invaded Ukraine because the Russians invading Ukraine was..."
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"...eighty percent of it but i think twenty percent is is delusion as well i the writing is on the wall but he doesn't..."
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"...the definitions and etymological origins of a an illusion and a delusion an illusion is like a magic trick and your mind's like oh..."
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"...life. So why not just take the risk? Put away your delusions or your beliefs about our world and fully embrace divinity. Okay. And..."
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"...boomers want to maintain their worldview. They want to maintain the delusions of empire. We all have to suffer because of this. Something that..."
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"...Okay? So public opinion does not matter. We've come to this delusion that our opinions matter in geopolitics. It doesn't matter in geopolitics. What..."
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"...okay and this is a great illusion like this is a delusion okay behind the economy where money is just a cop is just..."
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"...further we live at a distance from reality, the further into delusion, the further we live at a distance from reality, the more delusions..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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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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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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