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Wealth tends to lower energy, openness, and cohesion because elites stop working, exploit others, become arrogant, refuse correction, and atomize society through corruption.
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Stagnation
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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Because of Inquisition and Church power, Jiang says Western Europe becomes one of the least innovative places in the world before climate, famine, war, and Black Death produce a legitimacy crisis.
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He says Qin conquered because stable states became stagnant while Qin received mercenary knowledge, innovation, low-nobility talent, and social energy.
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Jiang argues that asking Europeans to deny themselves and submit completely to Church power produces corruption, stagnation, and inequality, helping explain why the Islamic world raced ahead.
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Jiang says the IRGC's monopoly of power and control of a large share of the economy produced corruption and economic stagnation, alongside the effects of Western sanctions.
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He argues that extreme inequality and oligarchic control over media and opportunity produce stagnation, corruption, and decadence because ordinary people no longer have access to basic economic advancement.
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He says bureaucratic elites are stuck because they have no ideas and do not know how to respond to the crises now surrounding them.
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"they see themselves as a team are they willing to sacrifice themselves for each other are they a family okay so that's the idea..."
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"don't want to work anymore they rather just exploit the other people okay the people and because the people are being enslaved they're too..."
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"Yeah, America is not a real civilization. It is almost... I mean, like, it was set up for the interest of private oligarchs, right?..."
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"So as you can see, what's really important to understand is the crusade against Cathars is not just a religious crusade. It's also one..."
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"Okay? All right. And at first this is fine, but eventually bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the Little Ice Age..."
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"to rivers so it's easiest for them to support soldiers and do good they have a large population and they were on fertile ground..."
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"day overtake them okay another way of saying this is that once we come once you reach an equilibrium the people inside the equilibrium..."
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"Look, look, I mean, I hate to emphasize this, but what's crazy about the world right now is that it's been captured by small..."
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"...completely to the power of the church, it leads to corruption, stagnation, and inequality. Okay? So, there are some major reasons. There are some..."
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"And because so many countries considered Iran to be a threat, they encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade the country in 1980. Okay? And this..."
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"And because you have such a monopoly of power, it meant that over time, the Iranian economy stagnated. Okay? Now, Western sanctions, American sanctions..."
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"...that it's a place of joy, but also of exclusion and stagnation. The ideas of heaven are so radically different from one religion to..."
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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