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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "didn't maybe i should have right yeah so march was really hard because um when the war started february 28th i couldn't sleep for..."
Jiang criticizes psychology by arguing psychologists have elevated rates of mental illness and that he personally has not seen people get better after seeing psychologists, while acknowledging others may have benefited.
He says his anxiety in March came from the Iran war and where it could lead, not mainly from the coordinated smear campaign.
He says his rule for online life is not to respond on social media; real disagreement should happen in long-form conversation, not troll exchanges.
Jiang says fame is a drug: checking one’s own coverage or view counts makes self-worth dependent on attention and produces anxiety or depression.
He contrasts this with Western reports of more severe mental-health breakdowns during lockdowns.
"didn't maybe i should have right yeah so march was really hard because um when the war started february 28th i couldn't sleep for..."
"media requests and i had to turn a lot down just because because i had just so many commitments i wanted to like maintain..."
"it's something that since this war started i can kind of relate to your apprehension to attack your opponent and handling people in this..."
"Right. So I think another mistake that Jordan Peterson made was too much online engagement, where he was actually responding to his critics on..."
"...antisocial. But again, it's... It's to protect my personal health, my mental health. It's to protect my family. It's to ensure that I can..."
"That's a mindset that I need to definitely adapt. It's different because, you know, we grew up with social media. So that troll nature..."
"So, I mean, the thing to know about me is that... I've been famous before. People forget, but like, I am China's most famous..."
"It makes you anxious. Fame is really a drug, right, where, you know, if today you got, like, 10,000 views, but the next day..."
"work but they they were there they hide the fact of its effectiveness and the results of mk ultra have spread throughout society guys..."
"psychologist but i myself have never met anyone or seen anyone who's benefit from seeing a psychologist that's really weird because if you break..."
"...So I know that in the West, there have been several mental health issues for students who have been, who've been stuck at home...."
"...of friendship. Because Theo Vaughn was saying some things about his mental health. I do believe that he still is a free man. You..."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
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