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He says people retreat into private worlds because fully facing coming atrocities is emotionally overwhelming.
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Overwhelm
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about the atrocities that are going to happen is going to overwhelm people so they just rather close their eyes and shut their ears..."
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"...about the atrocities that are going to happen is going to overwhelm people so they just rather close their eyes and shut their ears..."
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"...cheap, you know, drones that attack all at once and it overwhelms the defense systems of the carriers and the destroyers. And in this..."
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"...because they have more children than you eventually they're going to overwhelm your cultural identity."
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"And they were very quickly able to overwhelm both the Persians and the Byzantines. Why? Because by this time, both of these emirates have..."
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"...stronger than Iran. And we should expect the United States to overwhelm and destroy Iran really easily. But the law of asymmetry states that..."
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"...so what happens is that an enemy will emerge that will overwhelm the empire because it is able to take advantage of the weaknesses..."
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"...war. And over time, because of interest, these loans started to overwhelm the Ottoman financial system. And so what happened was, the British and..."
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"...ideas of modernity. And eventually, the Young Turks were able to overwhelm the Ottoman Empire and establish something called the Republic of Turkey, which..."
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"...okay? So over time, what will happen is the legionnaires will overwhelm the hoplites. This is a typical Roman peasant. He's spending most of..."
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"And so he's very quickly able to overwhelm the other city -states. At this time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries,..."
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"...on its coast the helots would all rise up together and overwhelm Spartans okay so Sparta must protect its periphery from uh Athenian encroachment..."
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"...helots right now their army rises 10 times they can now overwhelm Athens but Sparta doesn't want to do that because it would destroy..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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