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He treats Augustine's Confessions as a political memoir and warns that memoirs by powerful people are not innocent truth-telling.
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Memoir
Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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"...the Catholic Church, OK? Now, for whatever reason, historians think this memoir is authentic, or he's telling the truth."
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"...life is whenever a politician or a powerful individual writes a memoir, it's complete BS, OK? There's nothing authentic or true about it. So..."
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"...been manufactured. Yes. I mean, if you actually look at Obama's memoir, Dreams of My Father, you have to ask yourself, did he actually..."
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"...a book called Collinsby. It's a novel. Okay? It's not a memoir, but it's a novel. When you read it, he will say that..."
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"...this stage in history. Okay? Now, Benjamin Franklin, by writing his memoir, he starts a new fad in America that persists today. It's called..."
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"...Okay and if you think about it we discussed the the memoir of Benjamin Franklin right?"
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"...in exile in St. Helena okay so he's basically writing his memoirs he's reflecting on his life and he's not that perceptive he's not..."
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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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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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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