Glossary
Kuhn-derived model in which science advances through revolutions between frameworks rather than gradual accumulation alone.
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paradigm shift
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...I read Inferno. And so I was expecting, it's like a paradigm shift or the Germans would call it a Gestalt shift. The Gestalt..."
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Jiang presents Kuhn's central argument as science developing through revolutions and paradigm shifts rather than slow, piecemeal methodical progress.
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Jiang says paradigm shifts happen when new leaders or ruling groups come to power and reinterpret the past before them in order to stabilize their own authority.
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Jiang says entrenched academic paradigms in science, history, and economics make psychohistory-based governance a very long-term project rather than something likely to displace current frameworks soon.
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"...as you know Henry Ford would say so you have these paradigm shifts when new leads come and come in power and they need..."
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"So if you go and look back in the 1930s and 40s, and you look at their arguments, what you will find is that..."
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"...piecemeal and slowly and methodically okay it goes through revolutions and paradigm shifts all right okay so so I I know this is gonna..."
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"I hope so. I mean, like, that's my ambition. That's my dream. But I also recognize that there are certain paradigms embedded in academia...."
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"...I read Inferno. And so I was expecting, it's like a paradigm shift or the Germans would call it a Gestalt shift. The Gestalt..."
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"...it declines and the world order is shifting, where there's a paradigm shift, people are forced to make a hard choice of either adapt..."
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"...i also wanted to if you have any idea about how paradigm shifts happen in the field of history or geopolitics like has there..."
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"a paradigm shift in history it's really interesting because you look at at every hegemon comes in power it's always the end of history..."
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"...the Russians invaded Ukraine because the Russians invading Ukraine was a paradigm shift for the Western elite because they couldn't imagine like anyone could..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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