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Jiang models meritocracy as a race where the morally correct response is to stop for the injured runner, but the actual response is to smile and keep going.
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Indifference
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diagnosis
Aeneas sleeping in peace while Dido breaks means, for Jiang, that he never loved her and treated her as a plaything.
diagnosis
He argues that public exhaustion can matter more than fresh propaganda because people who once cared intensely about a war become indifferent after a ceasefire pause.
prediction
He predicts that alternating attack and ceasefire cycles can normalize war to the point that future ground troops will meet a largely indifferent audience.
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"What a meritocracy ultimately is. Imagine a race. Okay. Imagine a race and everyone's running as fast as they can. The person next to..."
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"Yeah, I think people are just tired of this war. So even if this war were to restart this weekend, people would not be..."
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"So, like, if this were to restart, people won't be as interested, right? So you don't even need to have a propaganda push. You..."
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"Such terrible grief kept breaking from her heart as Aeneas slept in peace on his ship's high stern."
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"Okay, so Aeneas slept in peace, meaning he doesn't care. Do you understand? He was never in love with her. She was just a..."
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"...capitalism is one, massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay? And alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world we live in today. It doesn't make..."
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"...shocked by the sort of corruption, incompetence, and just ignorance and indifference of my government."
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"...disengagement um disillusionment disenchantment with the political system and um this indifference is going to manifest itself in different ways"
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"...always afraid of revolution, okay? Discontent, and also the idea of indifference, right? People don't care anymore. So you're under these two pressures."
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