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12 timestamped hits 2 source readings 2 extracted notes Aliases: european-histories

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European History

Jiang says this long-term European enmity against Jews, created by nobility and repeated through expulsion and massacre, is needed to understand why the Holocaust happened.

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Long-run historical diagnosis in this lecture.

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Jiang says this long-term European enmity against Jews, created by nobility and repeated through expulsion and massacre, is needed to understand why the Holocaust happened.

Lecture thesis published 2024-12-31.

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Jiang argues that Augustine's ideology underlies the Catholic Church and will drive European history for the next thousand years, including the Dark Ages.

Timestamped Evidence

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...is, he can be overthrown. And this is what happens throughout European history. But the nation state cannot be overthrown, right? Does that makes..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...idea is going to drive a lot of the catastrophes of European history for the next hundred years. This is Johann Fichte. He is..."

The Empire of Myth

2025-04-29, day precision · Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth

Transcript

"...French. And the Prussians, again, are considered, at this time in European history, the greatest army ever. All right? So they are run by..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

Transcript

"...War, which is before World War I, the deadliest war in European history. It kills, at most, about 8 million people. So all of..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

Transcript

"...kill at most 8 million people. It's the deadliest war in European history up until World War I. What's interesting about this war is..."

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Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History

2024-12-31, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...

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