Glossary
Jiang's term for America as a political order defined by participation rules and incentives rather than ethnicity or land.
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nation game
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...game all right so the idea is that america became a nation game all right so um what so this is pretty easy to..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...game all right so the idea is that america became a nation game all right so um what so this is pretty easy to..."
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definition
Jiang frames America's national identity as a game rather than an ethnicity or a land, contrasting it with monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, and theocracy as older political forms.
model
Jiang says the American founders made the nation a game where citizens are players maximizing wealth, and that personal wealth-seeking becomes national energy and growth.
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"...game all right so the idea is that america became a nation game all right so um what so this is pretty easy to..."
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"basically rome a democracy is where the people make all the decisions and so what happens is that if a decision is to be..."
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"They're trying to welcome as many people as possible. So they decide that the nation will become a game, a game where the citizen..."
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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...
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