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Jiang says an early invasion theory for the Bronze Age Collapse lacks evidence, while a natural-disaster theory has more evidence but is not the current full explanation.
"...to support this. Second theory that we had is basically, a natural disaster. So the idea is, maybe there was a volcanic explosion somewhere...."
"...this, okay? So what's going to kill us is not these natural disasters or war or famine. What's going to kill us is our,..."
"...think it meant, for instance, prophecies, America gets taken out by natural disasters. America proposes the invasion of Russia by China. China accepts. What..."
"...it sees diversity as an enemy. Okay? So, if there's a natural disaster, it's very likely that a lot more people will die off..."
"...storm of several factors, including climate change, including civil unrest, including natural disasters like earthquakes, okay? Including competition among empires. What's important to understand..."
"...of events over decades. Okay? And these three major events are, natural disasters, or so basically earthquakes. So we have archaeological evidence, that there..."
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 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...
A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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