definition
Jiang rejects descriptions like NPC or zombie because Dante's Lucifer is even less animate than those categories suggest.
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Inertia
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A student defines Lucifer's inert, powerless state as just punishment because he has become the opposite of what he once was.
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Jiang argues that Tiberius can be said to mark the death of the Roman Empire: it continues for centuries, but only through size and inertia amid internal revolt and tension.
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diagnosis
Jiang says China has endured too long because geography, scale, and inertia have preserved it past its productive civilizational phase, and he concludes that it eventually needs to disappear so innovation can flourish.
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prediction
Jiang argues that China survives on inertia, mass, and the belief that a billion people cannot really be conquered, but he predicts major crises inside and outside China within the next twenty years that will threaten its existence.
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"I would venture to say that's his just punishment. Right. Lucifer's just punishment, because he was anything but, and now seems like this powerless,..."
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"...of its size, because of the basic, just the law of inertia, it's been around for like too long. And eventually, it needs to..."
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"...that in China, unfortunately. Fascinating. Look, China just gets by on inertia and on mass. It's just a huge country."
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"No one can really conquer it. And there's a billion Chinese people. And Chinese think that, OK, because we're one billion people, we can..."
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"...internal tensions, and it was only because of its size and inertia that it was able to continue for so long. So next class,..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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