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The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers.
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Jiang says America's public rationale for bringing China into the game was middle-class growth and democratization, but he calls that a fraud masking the desire to make China subservient.
The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers.
"So we'll discuss this throughout the semester, okay? The relationship between China and the United States. So remember that the United States wants China..."
"But as the Medici are patronizing art and culture in Florence, the printing press is being invented by Gutenberg in Germany. And the printing..."
"...present day. Social media. What social media is, it is the democratization of the call of the self. Before, only the wealthy could enjoy..."
"...present day social media what social media is it is the democratization of the call to the self before only the wealthy could enjoy..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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