Glossary
Jiang's Hegelian label for someone who changes the course of history by acting as an instrument of a larger historical force.
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world-historical figure
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Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's Hegelian name for a player who steps into a structured game and changes the course of history.
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definition
Jiang defines Putin as a possible Hegelian world-historical figure and Nietzschean Ubermensch: a man who steps outside history to control and redirect it.
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model
Game theory cannot simply freeze the future because a new player can emerge, see the contours of the game, manipulate events, and change the course of history for himself and his group.
prediction
Jiang identifies Vladimir Putin as the currently existing world-historical figure or 'ubermutt' who will manipulate the game to achieve his vision and change human history.
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"...control history? Like this. Friedrich Hegel would call Putin the world historical figure. And Friedrich Nietzsche would call Putin the Ubermans. The Superman. The..."
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"They will force the United States and ground troops and invade Iran in order to implement regime change. And they will basically get whatever..."
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"...Now, Hegel's name for this person, this player, is the world historical figure. Nietzsche's name for this player is the ubermutt, the superman, the..."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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