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5 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: calculation, calculations, material-motives-and-calculation, material-motives-calculation, material-motives-calculations

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material motives and calculations

Disraeli/Sidonia phrase Jiang connects to utilitarian reconstruction of society.

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material motives and calculations

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Disraeli/Sidonia phrase Jiang connects to utilitarian reconstruction of society.

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The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

Transcript

"...longer viable. But the problem is that Americans have made a calculation that this is an acceptable. Cost that they are willing to take..."

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Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · glossary

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

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