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Jiang's cyclical-history concept that empires, like seasons or lives, naturally rise and fall and must be accepted rather than resisted.
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life cycle
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...have come to an understanding, which is the world works in cycles. You rise, you fall, you live, you die. There's summer, there's winter...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...have come to an understanding, which is the world works in cycles. You rise, you fall, you live, you die. There's summer, there's winter...."
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He invokes Spengler to argue that civilizations are organic and die through a natural life cycle that cannot simply be reversed by policy choice.
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"...have come to an understanding, which is the world works in cycles. You rise, you fall, you live, you die. There's summer, there's winter...."
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"...for it. An empire decline, same thing. It's just a natural cycle, okay? All right. This is from Sarah. Yeah."
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"...who theorized that all civilizations are organic, and they have organic life cycles, meaning that, you know, you're born, you rise up, you mature,..."
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"...he argues that we are human beings and we have natural life cycles because we're organisms. Well, societies are the same way where empires,..."
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"...you know the way empires you know the the light the life cycle of an empire you're always you always have the rise and..."
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"...what this really is okay these superstructures it tells us the life cycle of a civilization. Right? So this is when civilization is young..."
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"...of another and the interesting thing about our time is that cycle watchers of all types from the astrological and economic to those who..."
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"...but they do kind of cascade. At this point in the life cycle, you either get war or revolution, you say. And to avoid..."
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"And the third theory is the idea of a civilizational life cycle. And this is proposed by a German philosopher, scholar, named Oswald Spangler...."
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"...there's nothing anyone can do about this. It is a natural life cycle. All right? So, these are the three major theories I want..."
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"...threat. If there's an external threat, then surely this system, this life cycle can be extended. Right? And external threats are examples of, hey,..."
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"...idea of oneness. We're no different. We're all part of the life cycle. We're all part of Mother Nature. Okay? The Mother Goddess. All..."
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