Glossary
Jiang uses Spenglerian language to describe Western powers as civilizationally driven to project themselves outward and dominate globally.
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Faustian spirit
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you know it it doesn't have the sort of a fashion spirit that um the Westerners have right I mean like Germany um England..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you know it it doesn't have the sort of a fashion spirit that um the Westerners have right I mean like Germany um England..."
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Glossary
Jiang's label for the Western civilizational drive to know, transform, and imprint identity on the world without end.
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"...you know it it doesn't have the sort of a fashion spirit that um the Westerners have right I mean like Germany um England..."
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"...right? So in Germany, in England, in America, you have this Faustian spirit. You want to change the world. You want to you want..."
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"...think alluded to it as well like this there is a faustian spirit perhaps in the west and this is like a double -edged..."
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"...humans, we strive for spiritual fulfillment, for spiritual enlightenment. Because that spirit has power. It has been destroyed in China for the past 2,000..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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