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Jiang says Homer and Dante could only arise in tribal societies; in Byzantium, such genius would have been absorbed into bureaucracy.
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Jiang claims multicultural societies are less creative than tribal societies because they become bland, conformist, bureaucratic, and focused on avoiding offense.
Jiang says Homer and Dante could only arise in tribal societies; in Byzantium, such genius would have been absorbed into bureaucracy.
The second message is meritocratic revolution: class, caste, and tribal loyalties violate God's will because all are equal as God's children.
"...Europeans. Okay? As are the Vikings. And the reason why is, tribalism is energetic. It makes you passionate. It makes you think deeply about..."
"And so, it's because of these three reasons, the certain cultural construct of the Byzantine Empire, it was Christian. It was multicultural. The word..."
"Second thing that you can say is that we are, we, okay, so you're basically creating a meritocracy. The idea of meritocracy is basically..."
"...Europe has been at war. Why has Europe been at war? Tribalism, right? Religion. So the entire project of the EU is to get..."
Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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