Jiang says the real failure is political and epistemic as well as physical: society is not having a serious public discussion about geophysical risk, and elites are privately preparing while ordinary people are not told what is happening.
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Elite Preparation
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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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