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Urbanization, trade, print, literacy, mobility, and standardization create an early globalization that is psychologically frustrating and bewildering for ordinary people.
After the year 1000, climate, agricultural tools, trade, and urban growth make Europe wealthier, but that wealth also produces inequality and the high point of feudalism.
Those embedded myths show social evolution in Mesopotamia: Tiamat is the life-giving mother goddess of agriculture, the gods mark the urban world, and the battle marks the old agricultural order against the new urban order.
Rome's poor were pulled into long foreign wars, lost farms to debt, and were displaced into cities while rich landowners shifted land toward export cash crops.
Jiang says the loss of cheap oil would force societies to either push urban populations back toward farming or face starvation as nations.
Jiang says the coming de-industrialized order would force nations to move population from urban centers to rural food-producing zones because cities cannot sustain themselves without cheap energy and global trade.
Jiang argues the Gulf monarchies are recent artificial creations of Pax Americana, built on oil protection and incapable of sustaining large urban societies without that imperial shield.
Jiang argues that plague repeatedly emerges when human beings are concentrated in large urban environments, live too close to animals, and remain under prolonged economic stress and inequality.
"seconds could you remember what you were saying yeah so the entire global economy um is going to control demolition and there will be..."
"can buy avocado from chile where you can buy vodka from russia any day any time um all of the year but that's not..."
"saying i'm exactly yes thank you yes that's exactly what i'm saying they have actually no choice in the matter because again urban centers..."
"Yeah. So the Gulf states are the great vulnerability of the American empire because Israel, it has an eschatology. Unfortunately, religiously, zealots have taken..."
"It didn't have much agricultural output. And so it could not sustain a large population. And most were desert nomads engaged in trade. But..."
"know these plates go back thousands of years right it's always you have too much concentration in urban areas uh humans live too close..."
"...the deathbed. Let's go over the checklist. Number one is. Over urbanization. Where everyone from the countryside. Flocks to the city. And you have..."
"...villages to the cities. Okay? You have this massive process of urbanization. Also because in the Industrial Revolution, there's more trade. There's another market...."
"Inside this church is a lot of gold, okay? A lot of gold. So in its thousand years, close to 2,000 years of history,..."
"And this allowed Europe to start trading with the rest of the world, primarily the Abbasid Caliphate, which we discussed last week. And as..."
"die if his people die, but if your people live on because of your contributions, then you'll remember forever. You'll become immortal, okay? And..."
"She's the one who gives life. So this shows Mesopotamia as an agricultural civilization. And then you have the emergence of the gods, which..."
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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