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Jiang argues immigration is bad because it produces cultural clash among people with different values.
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Values
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Civilization is a set of values and ideas that guide life, and the Aeneid becomes influential because it installs an inverted, poisoned Homeric value system at Roman scale.
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Marduk's new order proclaims values of struggle, exploitation, toil, control, and irrigation, replacing a mother-goddess religion of balance and harmony.
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Norse mythology creates community by instilling courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness rather than merely entertaining listeners.
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Jiang says the deeper explanation is that each civilization's value system or character determines its fate in war and history.
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Jiang argues that every understanding of history is really an analytical model with embedded values and assumptions.
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Jiang says language is an expression of a people's values, traditions, mythology, and religion, so removing it from its organic cultural base weakens cultural production and the development of ideas.
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Jiang argues that immigrants are generally willing to join Western civilization because they immigrate for its values, so the real problem is not immigration itself but the West's loss of confidence in its own civilizational story.
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"Goddamn immigrants! Again, this is not a political correct class, okay? Why is immigration bad? Why is immigration bad?"
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"Exactly, okay? Your values change. Before, these old families were dedicated to helping other people around them, helping their neighbors. But when you have..."
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"...civilization all right and what is civilization but a set of values a set of ideas that guide you in your life okay and..."
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"...Right? It's an understanding of how the world works. There are values, there are assumptions embedded in your model. And because it's an analytical..."
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"...own organic culture and it's it's really an expression of their values it's expression of their tradition of the mythologies of their religion and..."
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"...is Marduk proclaiming a new order, but he's also proclaiming new values. New values of struggle, exploitation, toil. Right? Before, the mother goddess was..."
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"...they immigrate in the first place, because they believe in the values. Of the West. Right."
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"...you tell a story you are making certain assumptions about the values about mores of people and so what you can do is you..."
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"...things together, we can make the prediction model, based on those values and assumptions, to then get all the truth. Now, the idea is..."
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"...to do is create community among the Vikings and instill certain values. Okay? The three major values that these stories manifest and express are..."
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"...because they're stronger because they're more clever. Okay? The last Viking value is resourcefulness. So the idea here is when you venture off into..."
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"...precise. Okay? I want to show you that ultimately it's the value system or what is known as the character of these different civilizations..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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