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Jiang keeps insisting on a personal agent rather than an abstract category, which implies that for this circle the responsibility must attach to identifiable makers of division rather than to 'media' in general.
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Jiang adds that in America media workers can hold unusually strong power, which makes this hijacking dynamic socially consequential at scale.
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Jiang asks the class to identify present-day equivalents of fortune tellers and students answer with fake news and agenda-driven media shaping public opinion.
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Jiang says the correct way to navigate a potentially manipulated media environment is to trust oneself, sample voices across the political spectrum, and test whether their claims make sense internally.
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Jiang claims the media falsely reported that Jessica Lynch had been raped, beaten, and held hostage.
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Rules-based institutions and culture make people believe the game is fair, so collapses look like natural gravity or moral failure rather than engineered events.
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Education, media, and culture are described as the indoctrination mechanisms that make people believe the order is fair, just, and normal.
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Elite boomers in education, media, and culture are described as cave-prisoners who benefit from the system and force politicians and the military to defend the illusion of empire.
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"...is she the cause of this conflict uh yes yeah just media in"
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"...i guess it's like the biggest polarizing factor like right any media for like newspapers"
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"movies maybe even right media sure just media right i'm looking for a name guys okay you you can't put media into hell you..."
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"Any... Yes? Yeah, because I heard in America the highest hierarchical crime is not killer. It's just the people who manipulate others and try..."
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"...like this is hard for people in China to appreciate. But media people are really powerful in America. You know? It's not true in..."
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"finish divine comedy uh in the next two days if so in our present day what kind of people will be condemned to hell..."
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"...move public opinion so that it fulfills the prophecy that the media wants yeah yeah yeah yes people with an agenda i guess"
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"How can we trust anyone? Is anything authentic? And how do you decide what to trust? Listen, you have to trust yourself. Right? You..."
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"Because only you, yourself, know what your telos is. I know what my telos is, but I don't know what your telos is, so..."
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"he, he, he went on, on the news circuit and he said that, look, there's no reason for China and the United States to..."
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"...really have the same... They don't have the same controlled corporate media that they used to have. And this is what allows conversations like..."
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"point that i will make is that in trump's first term you had a massive collusion between the mainstream press new york times cnn..."
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