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Jiang's proposed solution is to rediscover humanity by caring for others, putting others' interests before one's own, and killing the cult of the self.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Multiple sexual partners are presented as a way to build intimacy, mutual obligation, and child protection in small communities.
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The care and burial of a dwarf skeleton are used as evidence that hunter-gatherer communities could be highly compassionate toward disabled members.
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Jiang argues that high frequencies of disability and high levels of care in Paleolithic burials support the idea that disabled people may have been valued as shamans.
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"...our humanity if we are able to find the courage to care about others and put the interests of others before our own interests..."
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"Any questions so far? I know this is controversial, but I'm just trying to show you how our cultural beliefs is radically different from..."
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"If you're a small community, okay, maybe 15, 20 people, it makes sense to make sure that everyone loves each other and everyone will..."
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"...such concept as backward and primitive. Okay? The reason why we care about sex more than any other people is the idea of private..."
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"Okay, and this is actually a more clearer picture of shamans trying to access, you know, the spirit world. of shamans trying to access,..."
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"being a hunter -gatherer, you would think that they would discard the dwarf, kill the dwarf, or maybe leave the dwarf behind, okay? But,..."
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"And being a dwarf, it makes the most sense to be a shaman, not only because people think you're special, but because you can..."
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"...Therefore, the mother goddess favors you. Okay? And high levels of care until the time of death. Sometimes, their funerals were remarkably lavish, which..."
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"...a bestseller? Is he technically proficient? That doesn't matter. No one cares about these people. Okay. You may care about these people because they're..."
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"...you're like, well, but, I mean, like, they're successful. No one cares. Okay. All right. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I just hate the New Yorker...."
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"...twists toward evil or tends to good with more or less care than it should, those whom he made have worked against their maker...."
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"...Okay. Yes. He asked why? No, he won't. No, He won't care. What will he do to me? No, he won't."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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