Jiang says his literal model explains persistence without a literal grand conspiracy: elites do not experience themselves as one coordinated plot because they are too busy fighting each other, yet history still trends toward more control, more order, and more power.
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Elite competition
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Jiang says the system is a parasite extracting value from the nation-state, which causes other elites to ask why those parasites get the position and they do not.
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"island state and summon demons into this world in order to live forever okay so this is a grand conspiracy but again it doesn't..."
"What are they doing? They're discussing peace in Gaza. Why? Because after peace happens in Gaza, Steve Woodcock and Jared Kushner are going to..."
"...conquer the Zhao, the Wei, and the Chu, right? Because of elite competition, elite overproduction within these areas, because the elites have no loyalty,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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