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Why do civilizations rise, stagnate, and eventually collapse?
Why does decline follow prosperity again and again throughout history?

In this long-form lecture, we build a clear analytical framework for understanding civilizational rise and fall—moving beyond morality, ideology, and surface-level explanations to examine the deep structural mechanics of power.

This episode explains why modern societies exhibit the same late-stage symptoms seen before the collapse of past empires: declining birth rates, rising debt, elite conflict, bureaucratic expansion, social fragmentation, and authoritarian drift.

Rather than focusing on isolated events, this lecture synthesizes three major schools of thought into a single working model:

• Financialization and late-stage capitalism, drawing on the work of Thomas Piketty
• Elite overproduction and internal power conflict, developed by Peter Turchin
• Civilizational life cycles, first articulated by Oswald Spengler

Together, these frameworks explain why societies transition from:
consent → deception → coercion
and from:
unity → stability → survival

You’ll learn:
• Why rising civilizations reward work, trust, and merit
• Why declining societies become financialized, bureaucratic, and extractive
• How elite families consolidate power through finance, ideology, and intelligence
• Why immigration, debt, and authoritarianism are symptoms—not causes—of decline
• Why collapse happens suddenly, not gradually
• Why external threats fail to unite late-stage civilizations
• How war is historically used to resolve internal elite conflict

This is not a moral argument.
It is not partisan analysis.
It is a structural model of how power actually operates.

The goal is clarity—so you can recognize patterns, anticipate outcomes, and understand the forces shaping the world you live in.

In future sessions, this framework will be applied to real historical case studies—from Rome and imperial China to modern Western democracies—to test where it holds, where it fails, and how it can be refined.

If you want to understand **why the old order is breaking down—and what comes next—**this lecture provides the foundation.
This content is an educational reconstruction of Prof. Jiang’s lectures arguments for archival study and geopolitical interpretation.

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