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Dido's social collapse is total in Jiang's reading: she has lost Aeneas, broken faith with her dead husband, lost public respect, and faces hostile neighboring warlords.
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Social order
The new kid’s refusal to play along reveals that the cafeteria order rests on belief and compliance, not just raw force.
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The new kid’s refusal to play along reveals that the cafeteria order rests on belief and compliance, not just raw force.
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In Jiang's reading of the Iliad's honor world, losing respect can mean getting killed, so Agamemnon's face-saving display of superiority is not merely vanity but survival logic.
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Jiang defines U.S. regime change as the destruction of a society's capacity to function collectively as a nation, not simply the replacement of a government.
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Status-order warfare is regulated because elites benefit from the existing order and avoid tactics that could unleash social revolution.
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Ordinary ancient households are described as multi-religious, with people practicing the faiths of family, neighbors, spouses, and rulers as a way of getting along.
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Jiang reads Gilgamesh as marking a transition from society organized around a great king to society organized around bureaucracy, because the king returns recognizing that everyday affairs and the people's well-being matter.
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The rich opposed even compensated reform because piety, liberty, and republica had come to mean that the existing hierarchy must not be challenged by the poor.
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"All right, so what he's saying is this. Ditto. If it were up to me, I wouldn't say it would be, I wouldn't say..."
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"And now she knows her people don't respect her anymore. And she knows that the neighboring warlords have contempt for her. And they might..."
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"have more money because he wants to buy a car, or he wants to go to Paris for the summer. Okay? Does that make..."
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"And the new kid is like, I don't care. I'm happy not having any friends. Okay? And so then the bully and his friends..."
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"Okay? The first and most important thing is that he's responding to Achilles. Okay? Achilles says, you have to give the girl back. And..."
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"In order to save face, I must now demand something from Achilles to show that I am his superior. Okay? He's so conscious of..."
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"Hi YouTube, this is Professor Jiang again. I am in Toronto. I'm still trying to recover from the jet lag and the time difference...."
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"And the most clear example, of course, is Iraq. In 2003, before the Americans invaded, it was a fairly well -functioning society. Yeah, I..."
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"was leading sickly the Laying siege to a city and the people inside were starving to death Which is what you do in a..."
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"...these states are not trying to use warfare to overturn the social order because they benefit from the status quo they're using Warfare as..."
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"...never did that. Because by doing that, you would disrupt the social order from which Athens benefited, and you would unleash your power. So..."
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"So let me explain what's happening. Okay? So remember, the Babylonians in 586, they take over Jerusalem. They burn a temple. They destroy the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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