Glossary
An interconnected trading world that is also dynamic, chaotic, and war-prone.
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Globalization
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the Soviet Union, this game conquered the world, right? You had globalization. Okay? The problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, eventually..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the Soviet Union, this game conquered the world, right? You had globalization. Okay? The problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, eventually..."
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After the Soviet collapse, America's game conquered the world as globalization, but Jiang says it now concentrates wealth among a few players and leaves everyone else in debt.
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The age of globalization is over, so the path of Chinese students learning English, studying in America, returning home, and getting good jobs is over.
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Megacities are bad from a resilience perspective because they are products of globalization that concentrate specialized industrial populations instead of food-growing self-sufficient communities.
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He argues globalization, mass media, and the internet shifted young people toward individual health, happiness, and economic opportunity over community obligation.
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He says American hegemony made globalization into an extraction system that pulled the world's best talent to America.
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Jiang says the Indus Valley appears peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic, yet bronze status objects pull it into the same globalized system.
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Jiang compares the Bronze Age collapse to World War I and the present: heavily globalized systems can believe trade prevents war just before slaughter or collapse arrives.
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Urbanization, trade, print, literacy, mobility, and standardization create an early globalization that is psychologically frustrating and bewildering for ordinary people.
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"...the Soviet Union, this game conquered the world, right? You had globalization. Okay? The problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, eventually..."
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"Look, the reality is that the age of globalization is over. The idea that Chinese students learn English, hop in a plane, go to..."
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"...really bad. Okay? Megacities should not exist. They exist because of globalization. Because what megacities do is they're able to bring in a lot..."
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"Okay? And, where are most megacities located? Well, they're located in India and in China. There's a problem because India and China both suffer..."
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"First of all, the entire, the current global economic order is based on the premise of cheap oil, right? Because cheap oil is the..."
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"...we're living at a time when we've reached the peak of globalization and it's amazing to think about okay but think about how I..."
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"that we are in right so people don't really appreciate how unique and unsustainable the american unipolar moment was think about this where just..."
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"this unipolar moment but now that you have this aura of inevitability and it's really collapsed uh punctured by this war in iran then..."
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"...reality is that the old world the world of global uh globalization it's dying and it's it's and this war is going to kill..."
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"...that there are two nations that have benefited the most from globalization. They are the United States and they are China. They are symbiotic...."
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"a manufacturing export economy. And China doesn't have a domestic consumer base. So China is completely reliant on exports. And it imports resources as..."
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"...point but back in the 90s because when economic liberalism and globalization of the 1990s were gaining speed, he wrote this paragraph in his..."
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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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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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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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 starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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