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The cohesion and willingness to act together that Jiang treats as the real measure of national strength.
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Unity of will
The cohesion and willingness to act together that Jiang treats as the real measure of national strength.
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The German civilizational principle Jiang will trace through Prussia, Wagner, Nietzsche, Hitler, and modern politics. Collective will organized through a leader, party, and social discipline into action.
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The strength of a nation-state depends on cohesion and unity of will more than size, wealth, or territory.
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Jiang claims German civilization is distinct from both Anglo-American and Russian civilization and centers this lecture on German unity of will.
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The Ride of the Valkyries is said to collapse time and space and unite listeners into one will.
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In Jiang's account, Weimar Nazism is a pagan solution to German national humiliation: find a leader who represents collective will.
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Hitler's speeches are interpreted as calls for Germans to become the hammer rather than the anvil through unified obedience to one commanding will.
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At the point of likely defeat, Hitler's rhetoric is read as rejecting reality and insisting that faith and unity of will can impose themselves on reality.
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The appeal of such leaders is that unity-of-will movements offer cosmic meaning and sacrifice, unlike the boring materialist path of school, credentials, work, and death.
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The closing thesis is that civilizations, cities, and people can be killed, but the desire for unity of will cannot be destroyed because it is fundamental to being human.
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"...to to play to play this game right or maybe unity of will so for example maybe there's a bar fight between four brothers..."
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"...-state what determines the strength of a nation -state is unity of will cohesion not size not wealth not territory okay that's really important..."
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"...as well. We're going to focus on the idea of unity of will in German civilization today. We don't know much about German civilization..."
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"...obey the powerful. But in the pagan mindset, it's about unity of will, okay? If we want to act, we can only do so..."
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"...other. From now on, the Nazi party will ensure total unity of will at home through suppression of people, okay? And the army will..."
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"...his voice is. What his speeches do is they create unity of will in Germany, okay? Again, the goal is to rejuvenize the nation..."
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"As you can see, it's very powerful, right? It represents the unity of the will. So as people are watching this, they become united..."
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"...war and win the war, okay? So this idea of unity of will, all right? They can stand in line for a long, long..."
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"...saying we must unite as a people. We must have unity of will if we are to triumph against our enemies. All right. Nothing..."
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"It is the unity of will that matters. All right, 1942, November 8th, it's basically at a time in history when the Germans understand..."
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"...gradually radiate to the whole people, okay? So, this is unity of will. We reject reality. Reality does not matter, because we impose our..."
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"...what we want first and foremost is a return to unity of will, right? In the very beginning, the will was God. That's a..."
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