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Jiang rejects the idea that shared ideas or mutual admiration among elites automatically proves coordinated conspiracy.
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Elites
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Jiang says economic depression can be attractive to elites because desperation makes authoritarian control easier and cheapens the purchase of assets.
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Jiang says the deepest shock of the Epstein files is the discovery that elites are not special, brilliant, or moral but are mostly ordinary beneficiaries of inherited power.
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Jiang says the deeper American conflict is between establishment interests and emerging elite interests rather than simply left versus right.
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Jiang says the economic hierarchy would not change much because current liberal elites could publicly conform to theocracy while privately remaining themselves.
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Jiang says Chinese elites have weak incentives to clean up domestic pollution because they plan to emigrate to places like Australia and America, so the people making decisions are willing to continue environmental damage while their own children live elsewhere.
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Jiang says China has become a plantation economy whose elite class is largely overseas, so the country's celebrated industrial and technological achievements are bound up with extraction and exit rather than stewardship.
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Jiang explains many interstate conflicts through Peter Turchin's idea of elite overproduction: rival elite factions externalize their domestic power struggles by pulling other states into conflict.
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"make songs entertain us at night okay it will happen very organically it will happen very fluidly dynamically and that's what makes us humans..."
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"everywhere doesn't mean they're that important all right all right and then he goes on and says that look engels and marx congratulate lincoln..."
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"...the interests of certain factions and interest groups within the American elite. Okay? This is a very important distinction. The people in charge don't..."
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"...the greatest shock of Epstein Files is people recognize that the elite, they're not special. They're not smarter. They're not moral. They're not more......"
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"...I think the larger conflict is between establishment interests versus emerging elite interests. Right. So the example is Donald Trump. Right. So in 2020,..."
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"...I mean, like, you know, it's very easy for these liberal elites to don a new clothes, right? Like before they were liberals and..."
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"...China is a colony of America I mean that the Chinese elite are choosing to immigrate to the Western world to Australia to America..."
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"class um they're overseas so it's a plantation economy China has essentially become a plantation economy um the the things that you read about..."
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"...instability within the hierarchy so peter turchin has a term called elite overproduction so what happens is different factions of elite they fight each..."
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"forced them to engage"
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"...not… You can't predict the future in that way, but the elite has many mechanisms of maintaining social control. So, I'm not saying they're..."
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"...in the past were never really organic. It was always an elite. A certain faction of the elite, which galvanized the people. They sort..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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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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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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