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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "war will bring about the second coming of jesus trump is divinely ordained okay god picked him in order to start a war in..."
Jiang argues Trump has imagined himself as president since the 1980s and likely sees himself as a grand, even divinely ordained figure because otherwise his behavior is hard to explain.
"...he were not messianic, if he did not see himself as divinely ordained, it'd be very hard for me to explain his actions. The..."
"war will bring about the second coming of jesus trump is divinely ordained okay god picked him in order to start a war in..."
"...into thinking of a, that this hierarchical system, this system is divinely ordained, okay? So that's the argument I will make to you today...."
"...Ammonite List is doing is proclaiming that the bureaucratic world is divinely ordained. Okay? This didn't come from the priest. It came from the..."
The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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