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Jiang's description of the medieval church as a top-down administrative hierarchy comparable to empire.
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imperial bureaucracy
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Glossary
A large empire's centralizing, systemizing, standardizing apparatus that creates order and prosperity before ossifying.
Glossary
Jiang's description of the United States as a slow, compartmentalized, hierarchical system in which covert coordination becomes decisive.
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Jiang's term for the U.S. governing apparatus when it becomes self-protective, careerist, and focused on factional infighting rather than coherent strategic management.
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Constantine responds to Roman systemic failure by relocating the capital to Constantinople and producing a new Eastern Roman or Byzantine culture with greater administrative stability.
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Science today is compared to China's imperial bureaucracy: above nations and governments, self-promoting, under-accountable, and prone to lazy, greedy waste.
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"...first among equals but he still failed to set up the bureaucracy okay and so it kept on leading to the Roman Empire and..."
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"the Catholic Church system this war leader cannot become a nobility okay they can now join the fifty families to form a new nobility..."
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"...world through mainly trade and diplomacy, okay? So, it became an imperial bureaucracy. It fought wars, but it usually used a lot of mercenaries..."
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"...states. So the question then is if you're working within an imperial bureaucracy, which is what the United States is, how do you obtain..."
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"...community. But the reality is that America right now has an imperial bureaucracy. We have an imperial bureaucracy. Most people in the bureaucracy are..."
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"...I mean elite in this context, I'm really talking about the imperial bureaucracy, right? The people who run NATO, the people who run the..."
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"But I think the explanation is much more simple, which is NATO needs to justify its existence. And the best way you can do..."
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"...I will say is the United States military has become an imperial bureaucracy. It doesn't really have strategic foresight. It doesn't really do strategic..."
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"It's very intent on maintaining its hegemony. It doesn't really look forward. And at the end of the day, let's just say the United..."
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"...this. Okay, the real problem is this. Science has become an imperial bureaucracy. That's the real issue, all right? If you think about the..."
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"...of the Church in about the year 1000 is, it's an imperial bureaucracy. It's an imperial bureaucracy. The bishop is basically the emperor, and..."
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"...And the reason has to do with the idea of a bureaucracy. All right? Something that a democracy or a republic does not have..."
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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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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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