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Most societies resist a whole-society approach because it overturns social hierarchy: aristocrats lose to bureaucrats, villages lose to merchants and industry, and priests lose authority to scientists.
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Scientists
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...this possibility. Now, if the government were open with us and scientists did their due diligence, I think we could come with a solution..."
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Jiang says the real failure is political and epistemic as well as physical: society is not having a serious public discussion about geophysical risk, and elites are privately preparing while ordinary people are not told what is happening.
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"...this possibility. Now, if the government were open with us and scientists did their due diligence, I think we could come with a solution..."
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"Now, the question then is, well, okay, the logic here makes sense, but why is it that it's Europe that uses a whole society..."
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"...society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is a radical social transformation that overturns the entire..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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