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Jiang endorses the student view that ancestral authority matters because ancestors are trusted as wiser figures who can reassure Dante more effectively than his own judgment can.
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Ancestors
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...was seen as to be, like, very important, and, like, your ancestors were seen to be, like, much wiser than you were, so I..."
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In the forest-people example, participation in ritual and honoring ancestors is not optional culture but the basis of community membership.
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"...was seen as to be, like, very important, and, like, your ancestors were seen to be, like, much wiser than you were, so I..."
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"...exactly. Okay, that's a really good point, okay? So, yes, the ancestors are giving you support. Yes?"
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"...rituals, if you believe in the mythologies, if you honor their ancestors and their traditions."
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"Okay? If you're not, if you refuse to honor their traditions, then they will ostracize you, or they may even kill you, okay? So..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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