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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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In the empire stage, factions care less about the empire than about their own team emerging on top, which makes the center insular, corrupt, and divided.
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Jiang traces secret societies, blood oaths, factional politics, religious dispute, and human sacrifice back to the beginning of settled human society.
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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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Foreign invasion often follows internal factional struggle because factions invite mercenaries, who may then take the society for themselves.
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Carthage undermines Hannibal because its merchant rulers see him as a political and financial threat even while he is trying to save Carthage.
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"...And so what happens is that society breaks up into different factions, okay? And usually what happens is that these factions are divided according..."
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"...who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That doesn't mean the prince is the leader of..."
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"...And what happens is, and this is really important, guys, every faction has a formula. They all come from their own secret society. And..."
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"...steal as much as you can in order to feed your faction. You become insular, you become corrupt, okay? And then divided, okay? Do..."
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"...also maybe have sex with each other and you become a faction okay and this led to a lot of political conflict and the..."
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"Yeah. Okay. I understand. That is a great question. Okay? So, the question, to rephrase it, okay, is, yeah, but what if there's an..."
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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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"...overproduction. And what will eventually happen is they will form into factions that compete against each other for power. Okay? And when that happens,..."
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"I'll come and invade. What happens often is a certain faction invites mercenaries into the nation as part of the power struggle. And then..."
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"And so Hannibal had to spend most of his time foraging for food. Meanwhile, Rome could rebuild itself by freeing its slaves. Okay? And..."
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"...most places like Greece and Carthage were divided into different political factions. That's what caused Carthage to ultimately be undermined. So ultimately Rome was..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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