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The American inability to reflect on failure because it assumes its strategy must already be correct.
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hubris
The American inability to reflect on failure because it assumes its strategy must already be correct.
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Glossary
Blindness to one's own violent arrogance, producing repeated strategic mistakes.
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The dangerous overreach Achilles awakens in Patroclus by making glory seem divinely available.
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The arrogance produced when wealth and power make an empire think it is invincible.
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Jiang states that America is losing the war mainly because of hubris.
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The rules-based order decays when the hegemon starts ignoring its own rules, as Jiang says America did by bombing Libya and Syria and attacking Iran without international approval.
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The bully’s hubris grows from obedience; he raises taxes and pays his own friends less, producing latent dissatisfaction before the new kid appears.
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The same imperial advantages become long-term weaknesses: mass creates inequality and debt, organization creates rent-seeking elites and elite overproduction, and expendability creates hubris.
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Propaganda undermines strategy by censoring dissent and preventing rigorous debate, which produces hubris and repeated bad decisions.
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Jiang claims Achilles' speech gives Patroclus hubris by implying he can win eternal glory and perhaps surpass Achilles, while omitting the real danger of Hector.
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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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Jiang defines Spanish imperial decline as the result of wealth-driven laziness, insularity, hubris, overextension, war spending, and corruption.
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"...losing this war. And the main reason, is the problem of hubris. And so I want to examine closely what this means strategically, what..."
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"...the world thought. Okay? So this leads to the idea of hubris. Maybe the first generation appreciates the importance of collaboration. Of consensus. But..."
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"...invincible. Everyone just obeys him. So he develops the idea of hubris. And the idea of hubris is that no one has the courage..."
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"have more money because he wants to buy a car, or he wants to go to Paris for the summer. Okay? Does that make..."
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"...It doesn't really matter. And this leads to the idea of hubris. Okay? Hubris is just blindness to your own arrogance, a violent arrogance..."
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"Okay? So these are the three major advantages of an empire. And in theory, because of these advantages, an empire should be invincible and..."
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"And this often leads to debt and slavery. And as a result, your people become complacent, lazy, indifferent. They're competing against each other. They..."
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"forces the mass to go into slavery, to go into debt, which is what's happening in America today. The problem with this is that..."
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"No, you become dumber because you become lazy. Right? Same thing with technology. You would think that with the most advanced weaponry in the..."
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"...military, within the American elite. Which, of course, will lead to hubris. It will lead to bad decision making. No one will point this..."
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"...fact, you're probably better than me. Okay? And that gives Patroclus hubris. Right? And hubris is what's going to get him. He's going to..."
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"And so they set up these colonies all around South America. And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And..."
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