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Jiang argues that loving every child would require transforming present society into something far more loving and generous than the individualistic order he says exists now.
He argues globalization, mass media, and the internet shifted young people toward individual health, happiness, and economic opportunity over community obligation.
Jiang says Marx's product-as-mirror metaphor helped form modern individualism and materialism.
Jiang says ancient monumental work was not organized around individual proprietary credit; it was organized around whether the shared vision was built.
Abstraction means removal from reality; civilizational maturity increases abstraction, individualism, atomization, and dependence on money.
Modern students answer the happiness question with individual goods, which Jiang treats as historically unusual.
The modern scientific-psychological worldview says humans are memories and synapses that can be manipulated to control anger, depression, and fate.
A worldview that locates all problems inside the individual prevents collective identification and collective action.
"I have researched autistic children. They're not that different from you and me. They just have limited emotional regulation, meaning that they make noises..."
"I think something like that makes sense. Maybe here I am not expert. Maybe something like that we could trace as well in Chinese..."
"It is amazing. That is something. It is a miracle. So I admire that. But I can see that maybe it will be moment..."
"...a pope. They I mean, America's American Americans fundamentally believe in individualism and in liberty and direct access to God. So, yeah, I think..."
"And they're not going to be able to conform to the community. Okay? And historically, these people have been killed by the communities. And..."
"In my expression of my life, I would have fashioned your expression of your life, and thus in my own activity, I have realized..."
"...it becomes a basis for our society, okay? The idea of individualism, the idea of materialism, okay? Keep on going."
"In such a situation, our products would be like so many mirrors, each one reflecting our essence. Thus, in this relationship, what occurred on..."
"Okay, so this is a really important metaphor, okay? He's saying that objects become mirrors where we can see our own individuality reflected, okay?..."
"Look, that's a great question, okay? And this is hard for us to understand, but there's no sense of individual propriety, okay? It's like......"
"...is it was built. Do you understand? There's no sense of individualism. There's no sense of capitalism. There's no sense of like private property...."
"Yeah. So it's a very complicated question because, um, before you only had one priest class. Right. Um, but nowadays you have different, uh,..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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