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Jiang defines the ritual world as a script: living well means following inherited practices that respect the world's traditions and keep balance with the environment.
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Key Notes
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Ordinary humans are programmable to a degree because settings activate different identities and behaviors: student, child, friend, employee.
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The baby-boomer ethos of achievement and accumulation is destroying the environment, the economy, and ultimately their children.
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Oral tradition is not simple storytelling; the room, audience, light, darkness, acoustics, and communal participation change each telling and make each version unique.
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Jiang contrasts the IVC with steppe peoples whose harsh grassland environment forced cattle ranching, raiding, and eventually aggressive expansionist opportunism.
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Jiang says China achieved low-cost manufacturing partly by accepting labor and environmental practices other states would reject, and that the trade war plus real-estate collapse severely damaged Chinese consumer confidence.
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Jiang argues that when America offshored manufacturing to China it knowingly externalized not just labor exploitation but also environmental destruction, expecting China to accept dirty production in exchange for integration into the American-led system.
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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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"...in. Okay. Basically it's, it's, it's willing to destroy its own environment. It's willing to exploit its own workers in order to achieve cost..."
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"in consumer settlement. And so right now in China, people, people refuse to spend money. You have this, um, complete collapse in the Chinese..."
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"...basically exploit its cheap labor but it would also exploit its environment and you're right in that in theory as a nation becomes much..."
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"...Earth minerals is because they're extremely destructive they will destroy your environment they're extremely costly in the long term but China it's a colony..."
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"...these electric vehicles they don't talk about the impact on the environment and how maybe in two or three generations the air is not..."
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"...entire electricity and fresh water. And so AI may destroy the environment."
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"...you're connected to heaven on earth, and you're connected to the environment around you. Everything that you do impacts the environment. The environment also..."
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"history, something that we've all been doing for a long time, and it's something that we've understood and we've appreciated. Then the question then..."
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"...absolutely no for the well -being of human beings for the environment they're all driven by a thirst for profit no matter the cost..."
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"what this means is that while all this is happening, there are different scents for different identities. Okay? So, for example, with Ra, it..."
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"behavior certain actions in us okay so we're all programmable with a certain degree okay so to better understand this let me give you..."
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"...my my worth and their greed their selfishness is destroying the environment it's destroying the economy and ultimately it's going to kill their children..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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