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For Jiang, divine poetry is meant to enlighten the world, not to be directed as a state weapon.
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Jiang argues there is no real AI competition among states because AI is fundamentally a mechanism of maximum social control, so Britain, Canada, China, and the United States advance similar surveillance agendas rather than genuinely competing.
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He frames the draft order in brutal utilitarian terms: if you make yourself useful the state preserves you, and if you do not it sacrifices you.
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Jiang defines mercantilism as state-directed trade for state wealth, producing rival trade zones that American colonists resent.
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He argues that visible public symbolism, from Apollo and Artemis rocket names to the dollar bill and Washington's layout, is evidence that occult and Masonic patterns remain embedded in modern power.
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Akela frames AI as a civilizational race by recalling Putin's argument that the country that wins AI will shape the future, then asks how AI will transform society and state power.
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Jiang says both Xi and Trump are trying to consolidate their domestic power bases by placing loyalists into positions of power.
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Jiang uses the Mark Milley anecdote to argue that Trump lacked full control over the US state in his first term and remained politically on the defensive.
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"okay okay that's a good point okay so like try to visualize what's happening okay god give virgil the divine fire okay just as..."
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"to be weaponized okay it's meant to uh like enlighten the world it's not meant to be directed as a weapon of empire all..."
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"going to be able to do this because i'm not going to be able to do this because i'm not going to be able..."
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"each other they're working together because ultimately they are parasites on the nation state and trying to try to absorb as much power and..."
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"to play video games spend all their money on only fans and gamble everything on bitcoin okay and they don't really know anything useful..."
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"Okay, that's my advice. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but that's the world we live in, okay? All right. John Zack says, thank..."
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"Neuroscience is very much based on Freud's understanding of how the brain works. So how is it that this man with his strange ideas,..."
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"I think Putin at one point had mentioned that the country that wins the AI race will essentially author the future, paraphrasing a bit,..."
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"Right. So in geopolitics, I think a general rule that always applies is that the conflict within nation states is always greater, more intense..."
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"Well, I mean, again, if you look at the first Trump term, you compare it to the second Trump term, it's night and day...."
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"more healthy. person. But at the end of the day, that destroys the social contract, right? That destroys all your individual agency that destroys..."
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"is that in geopolitics, the conflict within states is more intense, more great and more important than the conflict between states. So the question..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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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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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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