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The state does not care about personal history, aspirations, or individuality; it classifies people into administratively useful categories it can exploit.
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State
The state does not care about personal history, aspirations, or individuality; it classifies people into administratively useful categories it can exploit.
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He treats the Canadian defense of MAID as bureaucratic rationalization: suicide alone is bad, but professionally facilitated death is framed as orderly and acceptable.
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Jiang defines the state as supreme executive authority sovereign over a territory and the nation as a people with shared identity through language, culture, history, or ethnicity.
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Identity politics is described as a product of the postwar individual-rights order and as the celebration of individual helplessness requiring state protection of vulnerable groups.
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"...an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work how..."
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"Hi, my name is Banker, and I grew up in Beijing. And, I came to Moonshot, this school, in 2024, last year, and..."
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"Okay, wrong. Wrong, okay? That's not the correct answer. The right answer is, you're a teenage boy."
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"...with individual aspirations, ambitions, with a past, with a history. The state doesn't care. The state needs to classify you in a way. That..."
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"Okay. So let's move on to another topic. So Canada, like 10 years ago, introduced a new policy called MAID, called Medical Assistance in..."
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"And it's really stupid. It's disgusting. It's disgustingly stupid. Okay? What they say is that if you do suicide, well, you do it alone..."
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"...The first class we are doing today is on the nation -state. Next Tuesday we will do the Soviet Union and then the last..."
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"...individual helplessness. Okay? We're all individuals and we all require the state to help us. Okay? So, the state is fundamentally about protecting the..."
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"...talking about the support of non -Israeli Jews for the Jewish state, you said that throughout the world, Jews are wealthy. Again, I, this..."
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"...you see me presenting this thesis, all great power or expansion states, whether they be Muslim, Protestant, Jewish, have fanatical religious belief at their..."
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"...the same time, the Saudis advertised the launch of a giant state -backed AI firm in the kingdom, with billions to spend on international..."
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"...former OpenAI executive said the portals currently exist in the United States and China. I told you guys, China and the United States are..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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