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Jiang ties this anti-intuition framework to medieval Europe and argues it helped produce the Dark Ages by suppressing innovation, wealth, and intellectual creativity.
"...trust our own intuition, okay? And this becomes a framework for medieval Europe, which lasts about a thousand years. And this is what led..."
"...theocracy the last example is a catholic europe this is a medieval europe when the catholic church was in charge all right but with..."
"...ignorance without their virtues okay so the Catholic Church was problematic medieval Europe was problematic now if you're a poor person you're a complete..."
"...but it'll also include the Turks and the Mongolians, okay? In medieval Europe, they developed a new system where the knight becomes the main..."
"...still go visit it, okay? It is beautiful. The cathedrals of medieval Europe are really the pyramids, like the pyramids. They are meant to..."
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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