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Jiang names schools, media, and entertainment or mass culture as modern institutions that create collective identity by transmitting a worldview.
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Entertainment
Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Ordinary Greeks paid poets for entertainment, for education in public speech, and for edification.
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"Okay, so we will do a quick theater today. Now, as a society, every society has a problem. The problem is, how do we..."
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"Entertainment, right? Mass culture. This includes, you know, TV shows. This includes movies, okay? This includes books. Does that make sense? So through these..."
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"...them? Okay? Well, there are three reasons. The first is just entertainment. Today, we listen to songs, we go to movies."
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"Well, back then, their entertainment, their source of entertainment, was to pay people like Homer to sing songs to them. Okay? That was what..."
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"Edification means to be a better you, to be a higher you. Okay? And edification, the way that Homer, accomplished edification, is by changing..."
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"We're going to have entertainment and sport and so on. You know, we're seeing a dramatic dialing down of investment in things like golf...."
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"...an economy through the gulf states based on tourism sport uh entertainment and so on it becomes very difficult to sustain that if you..."
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"...been come here it's safe it's sunny it's going to be entertainment great for tourism great for sport and so on and that right..."
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"...a lot of time in the world wrestling um uh in entertainment with Vince McMahon that they had a few a television feud and..."
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"...and personnel movies and TV program producers must comply with Pentagon entertainment policy including script changes to align with military goals including recruitment and..."
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"...what I do is I engage in speculation for fun, for entertainment, okay? So just see this as a fun class where we're gonna..."
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"...in the way that he manages politics as a form of entertainment, in a way, as a story, as a show. I think you've..."
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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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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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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