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Jiang accepts progress-tracking as one strong reason for exact geolocation: measurement lets the reader and pilgrim feel movement rather than abstraction.
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Measurement
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "it's about progress you can only progress in what you measure so they're looking at where they are"
Key Notes
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Jiang characterizes science as excluding what cannot be seen or measured and says that this leaves unresolved holes, with consciousness named as the leading example.
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The student pushback about energy forces Jiang's science critique to distinguish between measurable invisible things and genuinely unmeasurable realities like consciousness or God.
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Jiang says realities such as God, consciousness, and human connection to God cannot be proven by measurement yet still must be assumed through faith if the world is to make sense.
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Rousseau's political reason leads Jiang to 'count, measure, compare': good government becomes measurable progress, and the French Revolution expresses that in the metric system.
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Capitalism narrows reality by making money the highest good and rendering love or care unreal when they cannot be measured or financially exploited.
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Jiang says another neoliberal tenet is the belief that everything can be measured, including happiness through money accumulation.
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Jiang says PISA only captures how fourteen-year-olds perform in school, an especially volatile age shaped by puberty and hormonal change.
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"it's about progress you can only progress in what you measure so they're looking at where they are"
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"like start with and then progress with it yeah okay right good right so um maybe a possibility is like they're trying to give..."
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"let's let's clarify this okay in science right God doesn't exist if you can't see it it doesn't exist is that correct right and..."
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"anywhere all right and yes well but no but energy is something that you talk about in science and energy you can see so..."
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"measure okay you can measure energy yeah right okay so if you can't actually measure it it doesn't exist but then but then it's..."
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"mm -hmm so so Paul says faith is the evidence of things on seen okay so um to put this in very simple terms..."
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"Um, I mean, like, um, the idea that, uh, society is centered around the maximization of individual happiness, which is completely absurd. Right. I..."
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"So if you only think about the common interest, everyone would come to the same conclusion about everything. Okay? If the general will is..."
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"...we can know how we are doing as a society through measurement, by measuring things, by counting things, okay? Count. Measure. Compare. And that's..."
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"They are? Can you guess? These two countries are the countries that are most, that were most against the French Revolution. These countries are?..."
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"Okay. So, what made us lose the ability to imagine, right? Okay, well, it's these three things really. Capitalism, science, and the nation state...."
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"Sure. My issues with the PISA are many. But the first issue is that the PISA test is a snapshot of the education system..."
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 seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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