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Aeneas' first priority during the sack of Troy is to save his king, which Jiang presents as Roman piety and hierarchy rather than Greek personal fulfillment.
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Aeneas' first priority during the sack of Troy is to save his king, which Jiang presents as Roman piety and hierarchy rather than Greek personal fulfillment.
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In response to the student, Jiang defines capitalism as the belief that society can be structured around capital, in direct conflict with an older order organized by religion, king, and military.
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Jiang connects Trump's popularity to the same revolutionary promise: indebted people imagine a king who can cancel debt, and debt cancellation weakens the rich who threaten the king.
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In the cyclical political model, people, nobility, and king each hold a different power, and regime form changes as two factions ally against the third.
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Jiang interprets Trump as a king figure in the cycle because he tells the people corrupt elites are stealing from them and asks for power to destroy those elites.
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In response to why people believed the apology, Jiang says many did not, but a king imposes reality on others and the story is aimed at coalition members who want to believe David.
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In Jiang's account of England, the Reformation created many sects whose shared claim was that the Bible, not the king, was the supreme authority.
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"...so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent, open..."
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"And his first thought is, where is my king? How do I save my king? Okay so as the Greeks are ravaging the city..."
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"So, can we understand that capitalist equals to communism, or capitalism equals to communism, or communism is a weapon of capitalism, but if we..."
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"...old order, okay? The old order, which focused on religion, the king, the military, okay? Okay? So the capitalist is like, no, let's get..."
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"...Trump were to come to power, if he were to become king, what's the first thing that a king does? What the first thing..."
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"...is the people, there is nobility, and then there is the king, or a great person. Okay? And each of these factions have a..."
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"Okay? so these are the three major forces or factions in a society and these three factions are always in conflict and what happens..."
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"...happens a lot in human history but the problem is the king has a son who's not so good and then the son has..."
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"...nobility is in charge in an Arlarchy when but then a king and the people work together or throw in a create a monarchy..."
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"his ambition is to be king okay and we see the cycle throughout human history four years his ambition is to be king okay..."
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"...okay most were very clear about David's ambitions but when you're king you need to impose your reality on others okay so this is..."
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"...So let's look at England. Okay? England. So England is a king. And before, the Catholic Church was supposed to have authority over the..."
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the coming U.S.-Iran conflict is not only empire and alliance pressure.
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