He expects to be back in North America in August and hopes to organize paid-subscriber meetups in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, and Nashville.
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Key Notes
Jiang says he expects to spend a lot of time in the United States in August and September and wants to visit Japan afterward because he sees Japan as a unique society he has discussed but never personally studied on the ground.
He says he wants to explore more of the world in the future so that he can better understand different communities before speaking with more precision about places like the Balkans.
Cheap global flight is a recent effect of Pax Americana's guarantee of low-conflict air routes, and Jiang predicts this world will end with expensive flights and unaffordable vacations.
After Socrates' death in 399 BCE, Plato is said to spend twelve years traveling and absorbing different philosophies.
He plans to reduce media demands, continue teaching, travel for lived understanding, continue YouTube/Substack, and eventually write a book systematizing game-theory thinking.
Jiang says that because he has three young children his travel is limited for now, but he hopes to do more workshops and lectures around the world in the future.
He cites an unofficial social mechanism behind that warning by saying that if a person working in China goes to Japan now, the trip can leave a political black mark on them.
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"I have a lot of interesting stories. But right now, I just want to announce that I am planning to leave China. I have..."
"And I'll be visiting different cities. Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Austin. Hopefully, the Americans will let me into the United States. I've been..."
"I'll be showing you how to read it very critically, very closely. And that course, I think, will be very popular. As well. But..."
"Conflict in the area. You have many different religious groups fighting for control over that area. And a third is the historical animosity built..."
"things moved on um i recognized that the internet it has no attention span you know it um you know i don't want to..."
"i would like to go to europe um and i would like to go back to the united states visit south america so um..."
"my mental health and for the sake of my family i should take some time off um but fortunately i've been able to manage..."
"But not just that, but they would invest it in Africa. They would invest it in infrastructure. So for the longest time, the Chinese..."
"That's really, really impressive. Guess what, guys? You couldn't do this 20 years ago. Okay? The technology was around, but it was not widely..."
"...future um i have three young kids so i so my travels so i can't really travel but i'm hoping the future to like..."
"Yeah, so I'll be honest with you, I don't really follow Southeast Asia politics because I'm not allowed to talk about Southeast Asia politics...."
"or actually a cool city thanks but i i i have seen some of the reports about london which i think do greatly exaggerate..."
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