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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "otherwise otherwise what why are you doing this yeah it's so interesting the first collection of names you mentioned a lot of people would..."
Greg reads Jiang's continuity thesis as stronger once it explains why apparent civilizational or ethnic divisions disappear at elite levels: the shared ideology rewards fearlessness, extreme risk-taking, and indifference to ordinary judgment.
"otherwise otherwise what why are you doing this yeah it's so interesting the first collection of names you mentioned a lot of people would..."
"these people lose a billion dollars in a day and they don't actually become homeless they just go on to the next project there's..."
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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