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He contrasts Kabbalistic ethics with a Russian catacomb tradition that tries to stop the end of Christ, describing the latter as anti-transgression.
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Tradition
He contrasts Kabbalistic ethics with a Russian catacomb tradition that tries to stop the end of Christ, describing the latter as anti-transgression.
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Roman piety is obedience to fathers, history, and tradition; in Jiang's contrast, Roman greatness comes through conservatism and war rather than Greek openness and curiosity.
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He argues that by destroying Russian tradition, wealth, religion, and nobility, Bolshevism made the Soviet Union more amenable to capitalism after its fall.
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Jiang defines the ritual world as a script: living well means following inherited practices that respect the world's traditions and keep balance with the environment.
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America destroys inherited tradition and reverence for kings but fails to replace that authority with equally revered law.
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The second and third differences are purpose and legal basis: Locke centers liberty and tradition, while Rousseau centers reason and the general will.
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Royal power in Britain is flexible because the constitution is traditional and unwritten; actual power depends on personality, charisma, alliances, longevity, and political circumstance.
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Peasants are loyal to religion because over generations religion becomes tradition, land, family, food, habit, and the felt texture of home.
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"The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's..."
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"...This means obedience to your father s, to history and to tradition. And so the Romans aren t extremely conservative people, but they re..."
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"...finance the war, okay? And in the process, by destroying their tradition, by destroying their wealth, by destroying their religion, by destroying their nobility,..."
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"...living, you must follow certain practices in order to respect the traditions of the world, and that's what brings harmony and heaven to the..."
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"history, something that we've all been doing for a long time, and it's something that we've understood and we've appreciated. Then the question then..."
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"...So what he's saying is the American Revolution was about destroying tradition about destroying civilization but they failed to build new traditions that's evaporated..."
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"respect and revere ideas and things and laws does that make sense okay so in theory America is a rule of law nation but..."
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"So Rousseau believed this, but also Kant believed this as well. Okay, so that's a huge difference, right? Second major difference is this. Locke..."
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"...laws, okay? And so for Locke, the answer is very simple. Tradition, guys! It's just what we've been doing all this time, right? British..."
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"...thing about the British is, because it's a system based on tradition, there's a lot of flexibility built into the system. So depending on..."
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"To be flexible and to be pertinent to the present. Okay? And so the English are extremely proud of their constitution. Does that make..."
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"...over generations right over the centuries it becomes part of your tradition right so what is religion okay good people okay what do we..."
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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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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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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