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The less affluent parents, teachers, and local actors who experience reform as risk rather than liberation.
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The Crusades are described as not centrally organized but as a grassroots movement led by local lords, with peasants also going independently.
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Jiang says Chinese disaster response starts from family, human relationships, and grassroots cooperation, whereas many Canadians assume they can just call 911 and wait for the government.
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Jiang argues that governments do not want people to become self-reliant because local self-organization threatens bureaucratic power.
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Jiang says the reform impasse is partly a communication failure between top-level reformers and grassroots families and educators.
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"Okay, so I know it sounds paradoxical, but I think that in China, people are much more prepared for disaster. Than people in Canada...."
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"...Well, you should go talk to your neighbor. You should reform grassroots communities in order to respond to disasters. But as you say, the..."
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"...process because it's not being organized, okay? It's very much a grassroots movement. Basically, local lords are the ones organizing these crusades. And often,..."
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"...educators are doing is trying to implement this policy at a grassroots level. What we're finding as educators is that there's a lot of..."
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"...there's this real push for education reform in China, at the grassroots level, there's a lot of concern, there's a lot of skepticism, and..."
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"...let's have a real democracy and pick a leader, from the grassroots, who can lead us forward, that I think would be the greatest..."
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"...does that by controlling the culture and so there's very little grassroots dynamic innovation in China and whatever innovation is created through you know..."
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"...support as many NGOs as possible, trying to support as many grassroots media as possible. Number four would be to arm and train possible..."
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"...And a lot of it is because it is a very grassroots, very bottom -up movement. So the first major colony for the British..."
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"...which is a paramount concern of the Communist Party. At the grassroots level, parents think that, I mean, they have a very simple, very..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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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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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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