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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "salary and this is a very typical of elite in appearance period of rapid decline um so and and this just antagonizes young people..."
In Jiang's answer to a student, optimates and populares come from the same narrow noble-family network; the conflict is partly generational, with fathers and grandfathers resisting sons seeking power.
Jiang predicts rapid decline will intensify generational antagonism and culminate in elite fracturing, with rival elite factions fighting each other to preserve rent and privilege.
"salary and this is a very typical of elite in appearance period of rapid decline um so and and this just antagonizes young people..."
"Yeah, this is a great question, okay? What's the relationship between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in..."
Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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