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For ordinary people, empire produces war exposure, debt, and immobility, while bureaucracy invents mythology to justify the order.
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For ordinary people, empire produces war exposure, debt, and immobility, while bureaucracy invents mythology to justify the order.
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"...children. Okay? So debt really sucks. And the last problem is immobility. Which just means that you're stuck where you are. Okay? So the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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