Jiang argues that nation-states do not make sense because they classify people by race and language and impose artificial borders, a logic he says has led to catastrophes such as the world wars.
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World Wars
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...borders around the world and it's led to silly things like world wars um so I I think the era of the nation state..."
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Jiang defines empire not just as a state but as a nexus of organized crime, civil society, intelligence agencies, and concentrated evil power, and argues that imperial decline is producing the wars now visible around the world.
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"...borders around the world and it's led to silly things like world wars um so I I think the era of the nation state..."
"So an empire is a nexus of organized crime, civil societies, intelligence agencies, the most evil, powerful people in the world. So now that..."
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