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Political actors who propel eschatological stories while retaining some agency of their own.
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agents
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...flourish and come into being. So the virtues are designed so agents in a universe act so that everybody can imagine more and there..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...flourish and come into being. So the virtues are designed so agents in a universe act so that everybody can imagine more and there..."
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A student proposal Jiang treats as abstractly true is that virtue creates the sort of world in which imagination can flourish, though he postpones endorsing that as the concrete mechanism.
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Secret societies do not believe they can rewrite history at will; they believe they can ride historical waves by selecting agents such as Caesar, Hitler, Stalin, Trump, or Putin to propel the script forward.
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In Jiang's account, multiple occult currents and rival secret societies pursue competing eschatologies, and they sponsor prominent historical figures as agents, messianic figures, or scapegoats to move society toward those visions.
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Secret societies give rich and powerful people access to historical stories, networks, and political advantage, but agents such as Trump and Putin can also believe they are pursuing God-given visions.
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Politicians can be agents supported by secret societies while still having agency, free will, and the possibility of betraying patrons for a higher calling.
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American industrial monopolists such as Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan are presented as British-financed agents rather than pure rags-to-riches figures.
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He says many American schools rely on Chinese agents who are effectively headhunters paid by volume and therefore indifferent to whether overseas study actually makes sense for the student.
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"...flourish and come into being. So the virtues are designed so agents in a universe act so that everybody can imagine more and there..."
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"Okay. That's true. But I want to go into the technical details of how this happens. What you say is abstractly true but I..."
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"...formed, what they do now is they basically select leaders or agents or puppets or scapegoats. Okay? Whatever name you want to call them..."
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"...eschatology of the secret societies, okay? And these people are like agents that the secret societies sponsor. And historically, these people included Julius Caesar,..."
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"What drives these individuals like Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Trump, and Putin? What drives these individuals like Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Trump,..."
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"They try to turn the chaotic movement of history into a story that comes to an end in which you can participate in. All..."
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"...ending to propel this eschatology. And these people we can call agents. Okay. Agents. And these agents of course include Donald Trump and Vladimir..."
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"last problem is that these agents like Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, they seem like puppets, but they themselves believe they are using these..."
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"...It's something that I addressed earlier, which is, yes, they are agents."
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"They can only be agents. But at the same time, the agents have agency. The agents have free will. So, think of Napoleon and..."
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"All right, so what did England do with this money? Well, what England did was invest it in America. At this time, America is..."
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"...people like John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to act as their agents. Okay, does that make sense?"
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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