Glossary
The existing social structure that world-changing leaders must be willing to destroy in Jiang's model.
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Status quo
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...It basically means, first of all, I accept. I accept the status quo, okay? And the status quo is that America controls the Western..."
Key Notes
Glossary
The existing hierarchy that upper nobility tries to preserve even during war.
Glossary
Here it means a predictable regional order that China can live with more easily than a volatile post-American vacuum.
diagnosis
Science is described not as the pursuit of truth but as evidence-making that justifies and protects the status quo, which is why Jiang calls it fundamentally materialistic.
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He frames war as a mechanism for maintaining equilibrium and status quo, using World War I and the Warring States as examples.
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Equilibrium means a balance point where things stay the same and participants assume they will stay the same forever.
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War can preserve the status quo by sending surplus competitors into regulated conflict and restoring equilibrium.
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For Jiang, world-changing innovation requires destroying the status quo, even when that process is violent or bloody.
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Jiang argues that both sides ignored obvious war-winning strategies involving the helots, which shows the Peloponnesian War cannot be understood primarily as rational military strategy.
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His alternative explanation is internal class/status conflict: upper nobility in both cities prefers preserving the status quo to winning wars that might empower lower-nobility rivals.
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The defensive strategy makes sense, in Jiang's model, because Pericles represents upper nobility and wants to wait out war rather than change the status quo.
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"...It basically means, first of all, I accept. I accept the status quo, okay? And the status quo is that America controls the Western..."
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"...Science is fundamentally about finding evidence to justify and protect the status quo, okay? That's why science is fundamentally materialistic, okay? Okay, all right?..."
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"...Taiwan is not allowed Independence if you just like maintain the status quo there are no issues and so when she said that hey..."
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"gonna approach uh the coming crisis for the next five years it's very complicated okay uh and the reason why is that uh the..."
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"...you have so many vested interests interested in only maintaining the status quo that's very hard for you to focus your mind on the..."
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"I mean, this changes absolutely everything. The rules of the games change, as you suggested. I mean, why did the USS... Now China and..."
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"...we're at and why we need to essentially find a new status quo. Or is it the inability to let go of hegemon? Is..."
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"Look, in 2016, the entire world was shocked, bewildered, confused, perplexed, disturbed by the fact that he was able to beat Hillary Clinton, who..."
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"...As you point out, this is someone who can disrupt the status quo, and he's doing that right now with Project 2025, right?"
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"But the people certainly don't want the things to stay as they are, right? So people are voting for change, even though it may..."
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"OK, so if I worry Chinese geopolitical strategies, I'm not OK, but I'm saying if I work with the government, what I would say..."
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"...States. Being where it is, because at least it maintains a status quo. And I'm happy with a status quo because I don't have..."
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