diagnosis
Jiang links the ritualized culture of public speech to the emergence of democracy.
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Political order
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Europe's feudal military hierarchy made adaptation hard because changing tactics against Vikings would have required changing the social hierarchy that armored knights supported.
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Because Europe could not be unified by military conquest alone, rulers needed legitimacy: people had to believe the ruler was rightful.
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Jiang describes the succession problem created by Eurydice as extremely controversial and 'like dynamite almost' because it threatened to push Alexander out of the line of succession.
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Jiang predicts that after the crash people will demand a king who can unite them against the oligarchy, cancel debts, and redistribute wealth.
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"Because when you memorize the Iliad, you learn how to make a great speech. All right? And you understood that for me to make..."
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"The economy is headed towards disaster. There's really no way around it. It's going to crash at some point and everyone's closing their eyes..."
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"Right? The Vikings knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the..."
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"These knights would take this land and run it to farmers. Over time, as we know, farmers will incur a lot of debt. Which..."
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"Okay? So, if you were a navy like Athens, you were a democracy. If you had a cavalry like the Macedonians, you were a..."
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"So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because..."
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"It was extremely hard to unite Europe. Please remember, Rome was not a European empire. It was a Mediterranean empire. That's a huge difference...."
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"...Cleopatra Eurydice, it's extremely controversial. Controversial. Okay, and it disrupts the political order of Macedonia. The first reason is Cleopatra Eurydice, she is actually..."
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"...in France. 99.99%. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand to be? Something. Okay? So during..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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