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Kafka novel Jiang uses as a model of a society where bureaucrats process innocent people because procedure has replaced meaning.
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The Trial
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Glossary
Jiang's governing analogy for life under opaque bureaucracy: a person is effectively accused and managed without ever being told the real rule or charge.
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Kafka's The Trial becomes Jiang's literary model for bureaucracy: a system arrests innocent people and wages pointless prosecutions because it needs activity even when everything is meaningless.
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"...before World War One this is his most famous book called the trial okay I'm not sure if you guys have read this book..."
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"...not know why he's been arrested and then he's put on trial and the judge doesn't tell him what he did wrong okay and..."
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"...not know why they want they want to put him on trial. No one ever tells him he's got to figure it by himself...."
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"...of all of us. And really, COVID -19, of course, was the trial run to see how far they could push us into these..."
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"...Right? And so France Kafka writes about this in his book, The Trial, where bureaucrats don't bother with criminals because it's a pain in..."
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"during the trial maduro will say that venezuela participated in the stealing of the 2020"
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"...but not do real work okay and that's the message of the trial eventually society becomes so bureaucratic that the bureaucrats only think about..."
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"...reminiscent of the the novel. Like Frank, Frank Kafka, Franz Kafka, the trial. OK, this guy, Joseph Kaye, he's he's been arrested."
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"...of the Cave, it's interesting because it's really Plato's reimagining of the trial of Socrates. For him, his mentor Socrates, who was forced to..."
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"...create conflicts within the Catholic Church very, very soon, mainly in the trial of Galileo. Okay. So. Because science asks this question. How do..."
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"...the argument that it was Galileo's personality that was responsible for the trial. For his trial and downfall. It was his hubris. It's a..."
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"So it almost seems like this entire trial was a cruel joke put on by the people of Athens to teach Socrates a lesson,..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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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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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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