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Jiang accepts the student's point that radical poverty usually carries public humiliation and social ostracism, with Diogenes offered as a classical example.
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Humiliation
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Jiang accepts public humiliation and uncertainty about future misery as two real practical barriers to taking up poverty.
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Iran's muted response is, in Jiang's reading, a strategy of controlled humiliation: hold the population back until insult and anger force the regime toward declaring war.
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Jiang says historical vassalage can become a source of strength because humiliation creates humility, reflection on weakness, and eventual resilience.
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Jiang says he redesigned his Yale education by entering ordinary humiliating practices where elite credentials meant nothing, using failure to dismantle ego.
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Jiang says Israel's media blackout exists because Iran inflicted humiliating damage during the earlier 12-day war and Israeli leadership learned to hide visible defeat.
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Jiang interprets Trump's fixation on Greenland as a deliberate humiliation tactic meant to show Europeans that their leaders are powerless and should be overthrown.
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Jiang says kidnapping and humiliating Maduro humiliates not just a leader but the Venezuelan state and, by proxy, South American publics.
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"Well, because we would be ostracized by society. I mean, for example, there's also the philosopher, Diogenes, who lived in poverty."
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"Yeah, yeah, he lived in Athens in a barrel or something for his whole life. A bathtub. Or a bathtub, yeah. And yeah, he..."
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"...we have one, which is... We will become social ostracized, okay? Humiliation, it's public humiliation, okay? Everyone's gonna laugh at us. Unless you're, like,..."
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"It's the, if we haven't experienced it before, we don't know what it will be like, so what if I give everything away and..."
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"So I was afraid to fail. I didn't want to lose. It was the most traumatic experience to fail and to lose. And so..."
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"They never went to Yale. Whereas I did. So I'm superior to them, okay? So at the end of this year, my ambition is..."
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"...was just the disaster. As a cooking student. It was complete humiliation. But it taught me that the world isn't the way you think..."
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"And like every day after class, I just go home and cry. Because I remembered when I was a student in Toronto, like in..."
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"And so that was a revelation. And so I also learned not to take myself too seriously. Like the healthiest thing is just to..."
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"Yeah, it was just dumb. And like, but I was trying different things. So skydiving was, yeah, just don't try that. They're all on..."
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"Right, so there's a very good reason why there's no footage coming out of Israel. The reason why is Israel was completely humiliated in..."
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