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Jiang’s neuroscience explanation for why stressed students cannot absorb new ideas effectively.
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fight-or-flight learning shutdown
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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"So what makes us human special is our resilience, our ability to grow, to adapt. But the problem is that when Chinese go to..."
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"...Trump to declare the Insurrection Act. There's also possibility of a shutdown in Washington, D.C., where the government no longer functions. There's all this..."
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"...involving Democrats not Republicans to try to deflect from the disastrous shutdown and then he goes on and on he is going to now..."
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"...on. With AI, people are going to lose their jobs. Government shutdown means people are going to starve. I mean, the conditions are being..."
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"...opposition against Trump. And we can see that from the government shutdown. Has anyone noticed that the government has shut down? Do people realize..."
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"...2025, a revamping of the federal bureaucracy. You have this government shutdown which allows Trump and his allies to radically, radically change the makeup..."
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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