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Jiang argues that modern war is heavily about optics, but focusing on optics instead of material fundamentals causes actors to fool themselves.
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Self Deception
Jiang argues that modern war is heavily about optics, but focusing on optics instead of material fundamentals causes actors to fool themselves.
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The speaker argues that focusing on optics in war can become self-deception.
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A slave is someone who wants to be a slave and chooses slavery; enslavement depends on the person's choice to lie to themselves.
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"is going well. Okay? And we know this because this is exactly what happened in Ukraine. For the past few years Russia has been..."
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"because ultimately you're the one fooling yourself."
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"Sorry, that's what a slave is, though, right? A slave is someone who wants to be a slave, who chooses to be a slave...."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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