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Jiang defines the New Yorker as bad writing because it can spend decades perfecting stylish language and theory while still signifying nothing.
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Prestige
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A student argues meritocracy is largely a label that measures society by the same prestige sticks such as money and status.
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Senate equality is formal rather than practical: those with highest prestige sit at the front, speak first, set the agenda, and control debate.
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Jiang argues declining empires start wars partly to distract their own population and demonstrate that they still dominate the playground.
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Jiang treats EVs in China as a political prestige tool for technological image-making rather than a purely economic product line.
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He says that if Iran defeats the United States in an invasion on Iranian soil, the political payoff would be leadership of the Islamic world and enough prestige to rebuild Iranian civilization.
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Jiang predicts the war will drag on because European governments have invested too much money and prestige to accept defeat now.
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Jiang argues that Chinese employers no longer rate graduates of American colleges especially highly, which weakens a purely economic explanation for studying in the United States.
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"Do you guys read the New Yorker magazine? Just the most pretentious crap. In this world. Okay. They spent decades perfecting their crap. It's..."
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"...the same stick to measure society like money like all these prestige and all that right okay so so so okay we have a"
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"basically decided to just not do anything to avoid any political responsibility and so it's destroying the checks and balance systems of the u.s..."
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"I think that's a plan. I think that's an agreement. I think the agreement is for Chinese EV factories to move over to Canada..."
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"Yeah, but the, but the, even the Americans don't really care that much about Israel, okay? I mean, like, like, like, we're under the..."
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"What good does it do us? We have to defeat America in a certain way that allows us to basically become the center of..."
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"You have to get it back. So that's the situation the Europeans are facing. They've stuck in billions of dollars of dollars in Ukraine...."
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"the country yeah so i so what people do is they rationalize um and you know i've been working in this industry for the..."
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"they appoint Pompey, who again, is considered the greatest general in Rome at this point, at this point, to counter Caesar. Okay? And this..."
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"Everyone back here are not allowed to say anything. Okay? Because you go in turns. The people who sit at the front are the..."
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"...to the five -star hotel however there is a difference in prestige so my question is uh if there is no different difference in..."
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"divide them into casts of prestige okay great question okay so um first of all we are beyond time and space so everything is..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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