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Jiang says Dante and Beatrice are soulmates whose souls were meant for each other and remain aligned in the cosmos despite fate separating them in life.
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Jiang steers the class toward a theological reading in which absolute will is bound up with God, and human access to that alignment happens through love.
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Jiang expands Dante's two-will picture into a broader anthropology in which the will exists across infinite dimensions, and human work is to create harmony by aligning those layers.
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He argues that if one optimizes only for a formal objective like ‘perfect world’, the formal optimum can imply annihilation of people unless constraints for value and agency are imposed.
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Penelope's recognition of the bed sign finally aligns her mind, spirit, and soul, making her alive again and letting her acknowledge Odysseus as the love of her life.
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He uses the Peloponnesian War analogy to argue that many countries will align with Russia because America is increasingly seen as the great aggressor, like Athens.
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Jiang argues that Putin, Trump, and Xi all have more to gain from cooperating against transnational capital to restore national sovereignty than from fighting one another directly.
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Jiang treats geopolitical inconsistency not as an anomaly but as the normal result of elite actors repeatedly changing alignments whenever their own interests shift.
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"So I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm saying this is a resolution to the paradox here. How is it that Dante doesn't..."
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"Like absolute will is God, basically, the will of God. And so how can we describe these things more simplistically? Absolute will is what?..."
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"And what is our connection to the God? How do we connect to God? Through love. Okay. Yeah."
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"So Dante is putting this very simplistically. Okay. What he's saying is that there are two wills, the absolute will, your soul, the contingent..."
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"Okay, yeah, okay, all right. So what this means is this, okay? It means that the computers don't have any intuition. They have absolutely..."
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"Yeah, you already control the world, so what do you do? How about this, okay? I'm gonna kill everyone. Duh! The world is perfect..."
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"Yeah, kill everyone, okay? Why, because there's no one around to know it killed everyone. Doesn't make sense, guys. This is how a computer..."
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"now um the united states main adversary is that china um it's really russia because russia is the only country that has the resources..."
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"to the peloponnesian war the main aggressor was athens and what happened ultimately was that um the entire world ultimately aligned against athens because..."
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"Okay, do you want to go in? Planting it round with a bronze smoothing ad. I had the skill, I shaped a plumb to..."
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"The gods, it was the gods who sent the sorrow. They grudged us both alive in each other's arms, from the heady zest of..."
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"...All right, and so what we now see is finally, the alignment in Penelope between mind, spirit, and soul, and that makes her alive..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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