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An interconnected trading world that is also dynamic, chaotic, and war-prone.
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Globalization
An interconnected trading world that is also dynamic, chaotic, and war-prone.
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diagnosis
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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"...help their community get stronger and stronger. And unfortunately, because of globalization, because of mass media, because of the internet, for whatever reason, young..."
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"...writes the rules of the game will always win. Okay? So globalization was a system that was set up so that America could extract..."
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"the major points the major trade routes will become cities themselves okay all right and now this world is globalized in order to facilitate..."
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"But I want to extend this and say it has to do with the fact that it was a total capitalistic system. And so,..."
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"...and information. So think of this as just the beginning of globalization, right? In China, we're inundated with new ideas all the time because..."
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"You have more purpose in life. All right. So let's bring this to the present day. Social media. What social media is, it is..."
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"world, not only in North America and Europe, but also in Latin America and East Asia as well. So the call of the self,..."
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"yours forever it's yours it's yours but it's also your children's okay you understand this is a game that America has constructed if you..."
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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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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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