The quoted lines define exile as losing everything one loves, being falsely blamed, tasting the salt of others' bread, and climbing other people's stairs.
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Dependency
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Key Notes
He argues that ChatGPT does not make people smarter in practice but makes them dumber by creating dependency and weakening imagination.
He forecasts a possible $1 trillion U.S. deal and argues that China ultimately remains financially dependent on the U.S. architecture despite public narratives to the contrary.
He claims China is structurally dependent on an external monetary order and therefore vulnerable if that external order destabilizes.
When a person's reality collapses, dependency can replace vengeance; Jiang uses Stockholm syndrome and arranged marriage as examples of attachment after dependence.
Jiang says it is a major misconception to think Israel is dependent on American power.
Simon speculates that Israel's nuclear arsenal may depend on wider US military-industrial infrastructure and therefore does not guarantee fully independent Israeli sovereignty.
Jiang rejects the assumption that more data and more technology make bureaucrats or students better decision-makers; he says most people become more dependent, less thoughtful, and less competent when software does more of the work for them.
Timestamped Evidence
"Verse 52. The blame, as usual, will be cried out against the injured party, but just vengeance will serve as witness to the truth..."
"Okay, so there's a very famous Canadian media theorist named Marshall McLuhan, and his famous saying is, the medium is the message. And the..."
"All right. Now, there's a rumor a couple of days ago that one deal that Trump and Xi will sign in Beijing is Xi..."
"So, the Trump visit today is analogous to Nixon's visit in 1972. Okay? So, you don't know this, but before 1972, America was hostile..."
"And then from this of course you have the legal system to enforce the system as well as customs and habits values and norms...."
"the GCC as well as China in other words and this is really important for you guys to understand China is a hallucination of..."
"entire value is based on the US dollar so you're that renminbi or US dollar of course you want the US dollar okay and..."
"Right. So I think that's one of the great misconceptions in the world, which is that Israel is dependent on American power. That's not..."
"...billion. Um, energy. The agreement with Egypt, now that creates a dependency upon Egyptian revenue when America's no longer going to be, uh, funding..."
"...my guess is. Is that Israeli nukes would still have key dependencies, um, upon the same type of infrastructure that runs the U S,..."
"Right. Okay. So I think you're making an incorrect assumption. The incorrect assumption is that with more data, with more technology, the bureaucrats are..."
"You know, international security strategy. The Americans are very clear about the issues in Europe. They believe that the Europeans wouldn't encourage entrepreneurship. The..."
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