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.
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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.
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After Socrates' death in 399 BCE, Plato is said to spend twelve years traveling and absorbing different philosophies.
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"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..."
"Any more questions? Ask a question, okay? Okay. That's a good question, okay? What are the influences of Plato, okay? So you can make..."
"And while he's traveling, he's absorbing lots of different philosophy, okay? So look, we don't have access to Egyptian sources, right? So we don't..."
"...meaning to pass on and this latest talk crystallized it. You travel fast in your explanations with a satisfying deafness and say a lot..."
"...okay? Telepathy means you're able to remote view. You're able to travel long distances, maybe to the moon, and see what's in the moon,..."
"...are these portals into different dimensions. Okay, it's really about interdimensional travel. Okay, so now you guys ask yourself, okay, fine, but what does..."
"...going to happen is that Dante and Virgil are going to travel through Inferno, through Hell, but it's almost like they're traveling underground. It's..."
"...going to happen is that Dante and Virgil are going to travel through inferno, through hell, but it's almost like they're traveling underground. Okay?..."
"...something called the Imperium where God is. And then Dante will travel with Beatrice into the Imperium. And it's structured like a solar system...."
"...is the purpose of life? So while on his journey, Odysseus travels to underworld, and he meets Agamemnon and Achilles, okay? And Odysseus and..."
"...is produced in Columbia and South America. And then it just travels all around the world. It's a very sophisticated system of trade, okay?..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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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