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A city over 10 million people that Jiang treats as a globalization product and a resilience liability.
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megacity
A city over 10 million people that Jiang treats as a globalization product and a resilience liability.
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Key Notes
Glossary
The mature urban form Jiang treats as civilizational death because money, atomization, low fertility, and outsourced labor replace village relationships.
model
Spengler is presented as arguing that civilizations have life cycles like people: village, town, city, megacity, then death at the height of civilization.
diagnosis
External threats do not reliably unify late civilizations; Jiang says factions would align with outsiders or aliens to conquer rivals rather than cooperate.
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"...Another issue I want to bring up is the idea of megacities. And, the idea of megacities is any cities that have over 10..."
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"Okay? And, where are most megacities located? Well, they're located in India and in China. There's a problem because India and China both suffer..."
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"But when you move to a megacity, what is it that holds people together? It's money. Right? Money is the greatest abstraction. The problem..."
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"And that's why the megacity represents the death of civilization. And what is Beijing? What is Shanghai? What is Washington D.C.? What is New..."
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"...town. Then you move to the city. Then you develop the megacity. Okay? Not all civilizations will go through the cycle. But the successful..."
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"...other towns and you build a city, and you become a megacity. Okay? And what Oswald Spangler says is, at the height of the..."
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"...does not matter because once you've reached the point of a megacity, first of all, you're so selfish, you're self -absorbed, you are not..."
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"What would happen is certain factions of humans would try to align the aliens to conquer everyone else. All right? All right. So, having..."
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