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Jiang uses this to name the civic fabric weakened when a society relies on imported cheap labor while losing a shared willingness to do necessary work itself.
Low-population poor societies may use dispersed sex and disguised paternity to create shared male investment in children.
He presents the patriarchal family/property model as historically false for much of human history, arguing that women had bodily autonomy and diffuse paternity supported social cohesion and shared child care.
Jiang contrasts an older moral order, where every life was treated as a gift from God and society protected the vulnerable, with a present order ruled by cost and revenue calculations.
Jiang uses Japan's reverse-parking norm and Mongol invasion resistance as evidence of unusually strong social cohesion.
Jiang defines a nation as a fiction or narrative that everyone believes in, and says America's unifying narratives are breaking down.
Jiang says Europe is politically fissured because decades of Middle East wars sent refugee flows into societies that lacked the capacity to absorb them.
Jiang suggests that war could reanimate Japan socially by mobilizing youth and giving a demographic-decline society a unifying crisis mission.
Jiang predicts that within roughly five to ten years Japan could become the only country capable of resolving elderly demographic pressure, because its cohesive culture could support an organic elder-led willingness to choose euthanasia as a sacrifice for society.
"...that these millions of refugees have put a strain on the social cohesion, on the capacity of the state to govern Europe. So, there's..."
"a war would do is galvanize the population right um the like like listen at the end of the day I think that whoever..."
"They don't understand what germs are. So it's very easy for a woman to die in childbirth. Okay? And low competition. Low competition just..."
"And every child born will live. Okay? And then you have something called equilibrium. Equilibrium just means that yeah, there's competition but they're not..."
"...there's just lots and lots of sex in order to maintain social cohesion. Okay? Now in a superstructure number two there's no dating either...."
"purpose your morality as Society so I think in the long term what Canada is doing is basically digging its own grave um so..."
"it's going to come organically from the elderly now of course the government what they will do is maybe give the families um a..."
"And this is one of the things we know about. It's possible that Israel is spying on all our devices right now. So, 40..."
"It's really well educated, and it's really well connected. And many of these members of the Jewish diaspora will eventually return to Israel to..."
"...to bring in these immigrants. And that's causing the collapse of social cohesion. So we hear on and on. About all these ailments. In..."
"so after the French Revolution after the public wars you had something called the concept of Europe which guaranteed peace um in Europe for..."
"the capacity to diminish um cohesion in other um uh in other nations right so when putin is from this war in ukraine he's..."
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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