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Answering Eric, he says the edge cases for psychohistory are great men who appear from outside normal forces and change history.
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Great MAN Theory
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Jiang says Chinese historical imagination overvalues genius figures such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, while Thucydides cares more about large structural forces that drive states.
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Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao represent Chinese genius archetypes, but Thucydides treats such figures as secondary to structural forces.
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"ance a sort of coordinating mechanism for how people should behave Okay so that 's the second major difference The third major difference and..."
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"he wanted to use his sacrifice as a rally ing cry for his people So even though he didn 't really give a speech..."
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"about the world The first of course is Zh uge Liang who is the strategic genius who is able to come up with these..."
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"nation states So see history as maybe like these o cean waves You 're a great swim mer but you 're not going to..."
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"...would be edge cases here in history? Okay. It's called great man theory. Okay? Great man theory. And this is a problem. Meaning, like,..."
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"They can step outside of history and control history. That's what great men are. So, how does your model account for that? Okay? And..."
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A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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