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Jiang marks the French Revolution as fundamentally idealistic because it believes people can reason toward the common interest, whereas the American Revolution denies this premise.
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Idealism
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang partially agrees that use gives money force but insists it has no intrinsic value by itself and that economists mistake socially sustained value for inherent value.
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"...it does not have intrinsic value by itself. Yeah. As an idealism. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, but if you look at economics, um, if..."
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"So in other words, society, if it is to function well, must be based entirely on the general will and negate the particular will,..."
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"It believes that people are capable of considering the common interest. The American Revolution denies this, okay? So we will discuss the American Revolution..."
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"...of the Torah any more than it was of a socialist idealism of the left Zionist of 1948, who set the political tone of..."
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"...humanity may have begun as a sacred, uh, sincere stroke of idealism. But it has since become a uniquely potent formula for consolidating resources..."
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"...plan so i think that um it was a combination of idealism and a combination of goodwill as well as just"
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"...backgrounds and all of those type of things, like the German idealism that was kind of bubbling, that got swatted out? What do you..."
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"...ends up actually just hollowing out the society. And you notice idealism drops. This is the thing that's very black pilling about it. You..."
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"...in his own right. He's considered the founder of a German idealism school. And he explains that, okay, if we want to create a..."
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"...writing because it really shows you his thinking his optimism his idealism. Okay? So let's read it together. Supposing that we had produced in..."
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"...All right? And all of them are driven by a republican idealism, okay? They want France to become a republic. They want France to..."
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"...objective is precisely what creates our strength and our weakness. Our idealism is what gives us power. Okay? Our strength because it gives us..."
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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