Jiang says many young people experimenting with fascism, Nazism, communism, or other extremes are not committed believers so much as people testing options after legitimacy collapses.
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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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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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"I mean personally yeah and and so I think a lot of it is not like they're they're personally drawn to fascism or Nazism..."
"...international capital elites that we imagine? For instance, Iran is an extreme case of the resilience. But recently, Spanish prime minister and South Korean..."
"And a lot of these strategies tend to be very extreme, okay? And unfortunately, we're seeing the same pattern emerge, again, in today's world,..."
"...Chinese don't trust the Russians. Because the Russians are extremely nationalistic, extreme, I mean, there's Russian supremacy, okay? Even though Russia will pretend to..."
"...% of people are like that. Okay? Then you have some extreme people who are more idealistic. Then you have more extreme people who..."
"...to do things that are, from an outsider's perspective, irrational or extreme or fanatical, like start wars in the Middle East? And the argument..."
"...must be a male, okay? So the universe is divided into extremes, into opposites. Then this gives rise to the idea of generation, the..."
"...the fact that in each field you have certain individuals an extreme minority who seek power Power, order, and control, okay? So again, in..."
"...Templars, who want power, order, and control, they engage in more extreme practices. And so what they will do literally is they will eat..."
"the thing about suicide is that those who are the most extreme, those who are the most fanatical, will win out in the end,..."
"The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of occult. The biggest difference is that occults tend to be fanatically wrong about..."
"...shown that, um, this Gnostic understanding of the Kabbalah is an extreme, uh, version."
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