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Jiang's oceanic-currents model says an isolated borderland culture expands when a large civilization reaches it and transfers energy into it.
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Oceanic Currents
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...figure out exactly where they were they also had to memorize oceanic currents okay how the oceans were moving in order to better navigate..."
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The oceanic currents model imagines the world as interacting ecosystems whose currents collide and produce new developments without moral judgment.
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Oceanic currents are natural historical forces that cannot be stopped by negotiation once they begin; they end only when they run out of energy.
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He predicts the current world will be completely destroyed or transformed because oceanic currents destroy everything in their path once unleashed.
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"...the major thesis of the semester is the idea of the oceanic currents of history. And so one pattern that we see in history..."
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"And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself..."
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"...will happen. Okay? And this model is what I call the oceanic currents of history. Imagine the world as a huge ocean. And within..."
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"And when they win, they create a lot of destruction. Okay? And that's the idea I want you to implant in your head. These..."
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"...live in today. Nothing will be the same because these are oceanic currents. They destroy everything in its path. Once you unleash them, they..."
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"...figure out exactly where they were they also had to memorize oceanic currents okay how the oceans were moving in order to better navigate..."
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"look at the wind they have to look at the oceanic currents at the look of the stars and that's why we have computers..."
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"...so By applying the theories we've learned so far Mainly the oceanic currents of history, right? So let's get started today. We're gonna look..."
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"...sense? So these are the, this is the idea of the oceanic currents. Okay? You have these isolated areas that are ecosystems amongst themselves...."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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