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In the Oxford portraits example, Jiang accepts the idea that paintings can transmit the lingering memory or soul-presence of earlier lives, creating awe and resonance across generations.
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Jiang says audiences trembled before Dante because hearing the poetry could feel like being seized by an angel conveying the beauty of God.
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Charlemagne's cathedral-building was not just architecture; it was a technology of awe and unity that tried to bring heaven onto earth.
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The pyramid creates external awe: an enemy who sees it as God on earth would be deterred from attacking Egypt.
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Because the pyramid had to appear as God on earth, Jiang argues its builders would preserve mystery by destroying models or records so later people saw it as a divine gift rather than a reproducible technique.
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Jiang models early religious thought as arising from experiences that overwhelm ordinary explanation: childbirth, stars, healing, nature, and death.
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"I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
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"That's a really good comment, but try to explain how this connection works. There's a connection, you're at Oxford, and all these great people,..."
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"Because the pictures were positioned so high up on the ceilings, and then literally they're like looking down on you while you look up..."
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"Okay. Right, okay, so like awe and wonder, resonance, sure. Resonance. Okay. Um, so Benjamin Franklin, oh sorry, not Benjamin Franklin, Walter Benjamin, would..."
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"Yeah. So that's why people trembled at Dante. Yeah. Because it has to be an angel, right? When he's reciting this poetry to you,..."
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"...the pyramids. They are meant to give people a sense of awe and unity. The cathedral was meant to bring heaven onto earth. One..."
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"It is designed in a way that when the priest speaks, his voice is projected all around the cathedral, and the walls bounce the..."
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"...okay? That's the first reason, unity. Second is the idea of awe. So let's just say you're a powerful army, and you're an enemy,..."
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"...a sense of divinity and inspiration, right? They're trying to create awe and fear and inspiration, so they would not want for people to..."
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"...and we would be surprised by, marvel at, basically be in awe of? Okay. We're in this world. What are things that make us..."
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"this life come out of nothing right okay and if you don't if you have a psychology you can't explain what happened so that's..."
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"worlds out there does it make sense all right what else amazes you about the world to me okay recovery from disease okay so..."
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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