In this lecture, Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society, elite over-production, and the civilization life cycle.
Jump to 50 minutes to hear Professor Jiang’s predictions for the coming decades.
At first glance this looks like an influence operation agent pretending to be a youtuber pretending to be a college professor pretending to know about history.
A thought that also went through my head, he talks kinda very deterministically. He seems very fixated on the ‘exact’ kind of relation of the contextes, although well differentiated, still with a manipulative undertone on what emerges of other things and not. Kinda sus for a teacher of his caliber - might aswell be charles manson preaching his girls how the world seems lol - netherless, the content is solid ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
