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Jiang attributes the modern surge in depression, eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, and anxiety partly to lost divine connection intensified by phones, social media, and internet-mediated childhood.
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Childhood
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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Middle-class identity is built around education, achievement, and morality, including sexual self-control and the capacity to give children a childhood.
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Rousseau's Emile argues that children should not be positively educated before reason develops; early education should be negative, preserving health and avoiding vice rather than teaching abstractions.
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Jiang says the modern idea of childhood comes from Rousseau's claim that children should be allowed to play until around age twelve.
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Jiang says chronic stress and trauma from poverty, language difficulty, stuttering, and teasing inhibited his learning through primary and junior high school.
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Jiang says his childhood in Canada included serious racial abuse and ostracism tied to poverty, outsider status, and social mismatch.
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Jiang says Canada in the 1980s and 1990s gave children more real freedom to explore, take risks, and fail than contemporary parenting culture allows.
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Jiang says his abuse in Canada came from overlapping factors of poverty, exclusion from consumer culture, and his own eccentric personality rather than a single simple cause.
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"My personal background is that I was born in China. I was born into a poor family here in China in 1976, and we..."
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"...I still find it traumatic because it will stir up these childhood memories of racial abuse and and and all that. But but, you..."
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"But in the end, in the 80s and the 90s, when I grew up, you were allowed you were allowed a lot of personal..."
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"So I'm thankful for for what Canada provided. At the same time, I did suffer a lot of racial abuse while I grew up..."
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"Yeah, I mean, so, you know, there are different factors going on. So I was poor. So, you know, my father cut my hair...."
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"I was hit. I mean, like the kids would punch me and stuff. But also like they wouldn't let me play games. I was..."
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"Yeah. So, it's like, for example, a lot of people develop cognitive disabilities after a lot of, like you said, being put into schools,..."
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"Okay, yeah, okay. So, let's clarify, okay? So, in China, in the United States, everywhere in the world, we're seeing a massive surge in..."
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"...And it was a wonderful time. And it was a wonderful childhood. So I'm in China. I've been in China for the past 30..."
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"discuss, what the middle class will do is they will slowly adopt the Enlightenment principles of reason, debate, and progress. Okay? That's how the..."
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"I want my children to be better than me. Okay? If you're a peasant, you don't believe your children will live a better life...."
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"...more sexually pure, but also you have a new idea called childhood. If you are a poor person, your child at age 6 starts..."
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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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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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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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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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