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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...quite a few books based on this idea that what drives historical change is actually conflict within nations, especially among the elite. An empire..."
Jiang recommends Peter Turchin's work because the concept of elite overproduction explains historical change as conflict within nations, especially conflict among surplus elites competing parasitically over status and extraction.
Jiang defines the messianic framework as a broad explanatory tool for identifying the special drive shared by leaders who actually alter the movement of history.
"...quite a few books based on this idea that what drives historical change is actually conflict within nations, especially among the elite. An empire..."
"the movement of human history it does provide me with some answers with some clarity and so i i start to recognize that the..."
Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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