Glossary
Not a fixed canon in this context, but a curated set of recommendations Jiang says he will likely distribute through topic-specific Substack posts.
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reading list
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...consistently throughout this talk is, you know, do you have a reading list? Do you have several recommendations?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...consistently throughout this talk is, you know, do you have a reading list? Do you have several recommendations?"
Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang says a single reading list for the whole community is difficult because the audience gathers around very different interests, including geopolitics, civilization, philosophy, and history.
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prediction
Jiang says he plans to start a Substack the next month and use it as his main platform for releasing different reading lists and recommendations.
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normative
Jiang recommends Robert D. Kaplan, especially his Atlantic articles, as a geopolitical writer who teaches readers to think broadly and interconnectively.
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"...consistently throughout this talk is, you know, do you have a reading list? Do you have several recommendations?"
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"...a lot of people have asked me this. They want a reading list. The problem is, like, I read so much and my interests..."
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"...They'll. Like, like there'll be different articles with, like, different, like, reading lists, so it'd be great if you can subscribe to the to..."
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"They give you they teach you how to think about geopolitics in a much more broad, interconnected way than. Um. Than other thinkers."
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"...the Nephilim, and the Book of Enoch is on your recommended reading list for your students. I mean, I just think it's so odd..."
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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