Jiang generalizes that conquerors standardize and systemize knowledge to co-opt intellectual elites and show legitimacy, otherwise elites see them as barbarian conquerors.
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Intellectual Elites
Jiang generalizes that conquerors standardize and systemize knowledge to co-opt intellectual elites and show legitimacy, otherwise elites see them as barbarian conquerors.
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"...-opt the elite and to showcase your legitimacy. Okay? Otherwise, the intellectual elite would think of you as a barbarian conqueror. All right? And..."
"...we're, we're, we're seeing a lot of desperation, anxiety among the intellectual elite."
"...idea. So, for Marx a really important idea is you need intellectual elite to lead the proletariat into paradise. And this is a name..."
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