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Jiang’s description of the Constitution as designed to prevent governmental collapse rather than pursue greatness.
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risk management
Jiang’s description of the Constitution as designed to prevent governmental collapse rather than pursue greatness.
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The Constitution is defined as risk management: a system less about greatness than preventing anarchy, interstate civil war, alienation, division, and military despotism.
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He reiterates that social and mental preparedness matters even when predictions may be wrong, emphasizing resilience under a worst-case assumption.
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"Look, I hope I'm wrong, okay? On the internet, people call me an idiot. I hope I'm an idiot, okay? But I also think..."
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"...to aspire to greatness. We're trying to prevent collapse. This is risk management. We're trying to avoid the risk of government. Okay?"
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"...tyrant arises. Okay? So, at the point of the Constitution, it's risk management. It's to prevent America from failing. All right. So, at the..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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