Canada's heaven-like security and wealth should have produced eudaimonia and creativity, but Jiang says Canadians instead chose complacency and mediocrity.
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Mediocrity
Canada's heaven-like security and wealth should have produced eudaimonia and creativity, but Jiang says Canadians instead chose complacency and mediocrity.
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Jiang summarizes Tocqueville’s fear as the world becoming atomized, uniform, and mediocre under American democratic middle-class dominance.
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"And so my teachers the word they used for me is ambitious. I'm an ambitious individual and that's essentially a curse word in Canada...."
"In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the..."
"In 1835 he publishes Democracy in America. And he's trying to explain why is it that American democracy works? And why is it destined..."
"Atomized just means that we live in our own world than ourselves. Uniform means everyone thinks the same way and mediocre means that well..."
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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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