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3 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-01-05, day precision Aliases: poppers

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Popper

This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.

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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: An Empire That Sacrifices Strategy For Optics (2026-01-05, day precision).

Most connected source readings: An Empire That Sacrifices Strategy For Optics; The Nation Is The New God.

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Jiang's interpretation in the 2025-06-05 lecture.

diagnosis

Popper's attack on Plato, Hegel, and Marx as anti-democratic, anti-individual, and theological becomes, in Jiang's account, an intellectual basis for the American Empire.

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The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...Russian and German civilization. Okay? really doing. And that's why Karl Popper's Open Society has become an intellectual basis for the American Empire."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...for totalitarianism to arise in these states. Okay? This is Karl Popper. And Karl Popper is like Hannah Arendt, a European Jew who escaped..."

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