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12 timestamped hits 3 source readings 3 extracted notes Aliases: national-identities

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National Identity

Mass immigration creates short-term GDP bursts but degrades Canada's social capital, trust, cohesion, and already fragile national identity.

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General model applied to Canada as of 2025-08-08.

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Mass immigration creates short-term GDP bursts but degrades Canada's social capital, trust, cohesion, and already fragile national identity.

Interpretive claim in the 2024-12-10 lecture.

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The judges are interpreted as local heroes who bring other tribes into the Bible's cosmology by giving each group an ancestor or deity inside Israel's story.

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The Old Sacrifice The Young

2025-08-08, day precision · Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed

Transcript

"So I'm very thankful for Canada and for Yale. So again, we're really thankful for the opportunity to come. But the reality is there's..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"Japan underwent tremendous social change to go from a feudal society into a modern industrial nation that, in 1905, was able to defeat a..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"But everyone else reverse parks. There's no law that says you must reverse park. Everyone just does it because of a sense of social..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"...make sense? And this is, and this creates the sense of national identity and national unity that still persists today. All right? And that's..."

The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology

2024-12-10, day precision · Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist

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"...so convoluted, contradictory, and complex. Because they're trying to create a national identity where everyone, all tribes, all, everyone is able to contribute effectively..."

The Empire Loses By Winning

2026-03-05, day precision · Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry

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"...now activating, galvanizing, Persian nationalism. For the longest time, the Persian national identity was suppressed by the theocracy. Because they want to create a..."

Communism As Capitalism's Weapon

2026-01-29, day precision · Game Theory #8: Communist Specter

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"The class consciousness is more important than national identity, right? Now democracy. No, no, no. This is bad too, right? Because workers cannot defend..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"...Okay? And as a result, there really wasn't a sense of national identity. But now with the rise of print technology, there's now a..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...of German -ness. They don't really have a sense of a national identity. So what will happen is, to counter the French, German intellectuals..."

The Bureaucracy That Ate China

2025-03-13, day precision · Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom

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"...three things. You lose the idea of a national unity, a national identity. You lose culture. You lose the will to fight. Okay? And..."

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The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology

2024-12-10, day precision · claims

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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...

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