A social order that honors men, protects and celebrates private property, and pushes young men toward expansion and warfare.
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war culture
A social order that honors men, protects and celebrates private property, and pushes young men toward expansion and warfare.
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Key Notes
The disinherited younger sons must build wealth elsewhere, which in Jiang's model means stealing cattle and expanding through violence.
A pastoral private-property society honors men above women, celebrates private property, and encourages young men to expand the civilization and fight wars.
Jiang frames America as a society addicted to violence, citing guns, the sacralization of the Second Amendment, football, and reverence for war history.
Jiang says war culture may be anti-slavery because warriors can rebel or mutiny, while consumers cannot mount meaningful rebellion by merely refusing to buy things.
Jiang says war culture is politically dangerous because warriors can rebel, mutiny, march to Moscow, and overthrow leaders.
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"...basically stealing cows from other people, okay? So this creates a war culture, a war culture, right? So does that make sense? That's your..."
"So let's just say I have 10 sons, and I have 100 cattle, and I die. Who gets my cattle? Who gets my wealth?..."
"Today we will be discussing the second American Civil War. So I want to make the argument that a conflict is very likely and..."
"It is an extremely violent sport. In fact, America is really the only country that plays this sport, and Americans love football. The Super..."
"...that's a great question. Okay? So, we just said that consumer culture is the perfection of slavery, but is war culture slavery? And you..."
"...do that. And they do that all the time. That's why war culture is so destructive. And that's why war culture was so dominant..."
"Okay? China is not a warrior culture. It's very hard for the Chinese to fight wars. And Chinese... Okay. I hate to say this,..."
"...to happen? The country's going to fall apart because there's a war culture. And you have these different generals fighting each other for total..."
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