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A student defends meritocracy by saying it can give opportunity to people who did not win the birth lottery, but Jiang answers that this is the theory people have been taught.
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Ideology
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He argues the American economic order sustains itself by constructing institutions and narratives that hide its constructed nature, including finance, international institutions, culture, and enforcement apparatuses.
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He identifies transnational capital as globally dominant and says it faces opposition from nationalism, religion/Orthodoxy, and technology-based forces in the four-state rivalry.
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He uses literary references (Milton, Goethe, Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Augustine) as evidence that each civilization’s strategy comes from different stories about God, selfhood, and pride.
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Jiang argues materialism was created to make the unfair financial system seem fair by replacing God with money as the highest good.
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Transnational capital is said to care about profit rather than ideology, which is why it could work with Bolsheviks despite anti-capitalist rhetoric.
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Jiang lists three standard explanations for the Yale-style confrontation: protected parenting, consumer/customer logic in universities, and ideological training about racism and privilege.
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He argues that the nation-state is probably the most powerful ideology in human history because it has generated both tremendous achievement and catastrophic wars including the two world wars.
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"but meritocracy um gives equal chances to relatively can give equal chances to people who were not born who didn't win the birth lottery..."
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"it has high efficiency yes yes that that that's what you what you were taught"
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"Okay? So I'm going to take this idea and apply it to reality and show you how it works. So at the very basis..."
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"They together create the conditions for this game. They're able to direct our attention. Okay? And the mechanism they do this with is of..."
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"Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the..."
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"Okay, so let's just list them the first is of course nationalism right there are people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin who believe..."
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"So in other words, what's happening is that There's a civil war going on in the world where right now transnational capital is Dominant..."
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"Okay? Because of their pride. And the thing about Paradise Lost is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it..."
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"Because if we can learn for ourselves, we can be like God. And God created us to be his slaves and his servants, okay?..."
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"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
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"...England were sponsoring major intellectuals to come up with the major ideologies to support the idea that money is God okay and these include..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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