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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
Jiang presents coercion as the theory that an elite group that did not want to work forced everyone else into agricultural labor, with gorilla alpha-male hierarchy as supporting primate evidence.
"...coercion and the evidence for this is that well guess what? Gorillas do this right if you study gorillas, you will see that they..."
"gorilla so what's trump saying is that you're going to play when he negotiates, he's going to negotiate to the end. So what he..."
"pretend you're gorilla and, and threaten, uh, the counterparty, and then you calm down and slowly, you know, reach a deal. But, uh, for..."
"...a it's like a boxing match, right? You're up against a gorilla. So you need to wait until the gorilla is off balance when..."
"...penises. In fact, the largest penises of all primates. Okay? So gorillas are much bigger than we are. We have bigger penises. Why? Because..."
"...had multiple sexual partners. And one piece of evidence is this. Gorillas, right? They're the biggest primates. They're huge, right? Well, it turns out..."
"...Primates that we look at very closely Okay, the first is gorillas. We also look at chimpanzees and we look at banal bulls. Okay..."
"...All right, okay so coercion While it is true that with gorillas, there's an alpha male Who controls everything? The problem is that if..."
The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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