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External threats do not reliably unify late civilizations; Jiang says factions would align with outsiders or aliens to conquer rivals rather than cooperate.
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External Threat
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He argues that attempts to unify Americans against China or Russia failed because the public does not feel enough organic hatred for those external adversaries to overlook domestic oligarchic resentment.
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"...of situation, what you want to do is maybe identify an external threat. And before, America was like, you know, like, let's just bully..."
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"Russia has nuclear weapons, man. And we hate our oligarchs more than we hate Putin or China or, you know, whatever. And now, you..."
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"...to rephrase it, okay, is, yeah, but what if there's an external threat? Okay? An external threat. If there's an external threat, then surely..."
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"What would happen is certain factions of humans would try to align the aliens to conquer everyone else. All right? All right. So, having..."
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"...remember is this is a natural cycle. And no amount of external threat will change that dynamic. Why? Because it's very common for these..."
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"...much too insular, much too wracked with infighting to care about external threats. And that's why if there's an alien invasion, it really wouldn't..."
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"...enemies of society. And therefore, society cannot be prepared for any external threats, which leads to its collapse. Any questions? Okay. So, this is..."
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"...will rise up against them as well. So you have these external threats coming in. And then you also have internal threats, okay?"
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