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9 timestamped hits 3 source readings 3 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-05-12, day precision Aliases: romanticisms

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Romanticism

The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...

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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control (2026-05-12, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control; History Becomes Power When Imagination Collapses; The Nation Is The New God.

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German nationalism begins as a Romantic response to French domination: culture creates the people, and the people must protect, enhance, and spread that culture through the nation-state.

Comparative model in this lecture.

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Jiang summarizes the Enlightenment/Romanticism split as science versus nature, reason versus emotion, liberty versus will and struggle, and French general will versus German Geist.

Comparative historical model stated on 2025-12-31.

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Jiang claims that Western industrialization transformed the whole society and therefore generated deep cultural and philosophical backlash, but Chinese industrialization did not produce the same pattern because it was not an organic civilizational process.

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The Nation Is The New God

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

Transcript

"...response to French nationalism okay so now they're being influenced by Romanticism and in Romanticism their response is is this there is a culture..."

The Nation Is The New God

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

Transcript

"it's the Germans who first proposed this idea but then it spreads to Italy as well okay so these are two extremely different interpretations..."

The Nation Is The New God

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

Transcript

"Let them be bleached and dried out by many centuries of storms, deluges, and blazing sun. The animating breath of the spiritual world has..."

The Nation Is The New God

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

Transcript

"right Romanticism is something we didn't really talk that much about but Romanticism is a direct direct response to the problems created by Romanticism..."

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