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Jiang says Facebook's success and data-center investment make most sense if social media and AI are infrastructure for a future surveillance state rather than ordinary consumer products.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Modern tech firms are presented as inheritors of the same strategy: public U.S. military technology is handed to trusted fronts so surveillance appears voluntary and private.
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Jiang proposes Mark Zuckerberg as a contemporary elite case study because Zuckerberg refused large buyout offers while Facebook's rise and later expansion into AI and VR looked unnaturally smooth to him.
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Jiang treats the Winklevoss twins' decision to put their Facebook settlement into Bitcoin as evidence that informed insiders knew what Bitcoin was designed to do and who stood behind it.
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Jiang argues that firms which treat employees with respect and strip out scientific management thrive because they encourage people to act as creative individuals rather than managed animals.
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"...Zuckerberg and he was a freshman at Harvard when he founded Facebook and Facebook became very successful really fast and people started to come..."
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"...it's social media right what's to stop me from starting another Facebook and then having people gravitate towards that social media like tick -tock..."
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"...then he got billions of dollars from venture capitalists to start Facebook. Why did he get this money? Facebook is not a great idea...."
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"...controls the world's search. Amazon controls, buying things, right? What does Facebook do? It doesn't do anything, right? So how do I explain why..."
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"They look exactly the same. They are the same. They look like clones of each other. No personality, no ideas of their own. They're..."
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"...This 19 -year -old guy drops out from Harvard and founds Facebook, okay, and now he's a billionaire. How does that happen, guys? Well,..."
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"...spy on me, right? But if Mark Zuckerberg says, hey, free Facebook, guys, would I use it? Yeah, sure. Facebook, yeah. He's a dwarf..."
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"...million dollars settlement which is nothing okay like like you know Facebook is worth tens of billions of dollars today a hundred million dollars..."
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"...respect, um, you know, companies like Google and Apple and, and Facebook and which basically encourage them to be creative individuals and they sort..."
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"...incentives. And, you know, the media didn't like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook because 70 -80 % of ad revenue went to Google and Facebook...."
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"...Middle East? And we know that social media, basically Twitter and Facebook, were instrumental. And organizing people and promoting unrest in these places. All..."
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"...twins sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them. And this went to court. And there was a settlement...."
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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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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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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