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Jiang defines Western civilization by timeless human and spiritual truths in its classics, not by race, and says Chinese students can recognize and love those truths.
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Jiang defines Western civilization by timeless human and spiritual truths in its classics, not by race, and says Chinese students can recognize and love those truths.
Jiang says universities should be the heart and center of civilization, analogous to medieval monasteries dedicated to preserving classics, but elite Western universities now undermine that mission through DEI and rejection of the canon.
Jiang says the West is destroying itself by abandoning the classics and truths that made it great.
"...I mean, Homer, Dante, Plato, Shakespeare, the Bible, these are timeless, classics that speak to every human. I know because I teach in China..."
"...and Dante and Plato. It's like, if you don't teach these classics, what's the purpose of university? I always thought the university was the..."
"...in china's you know in the process of promoting uh the classics uh plato homer shakespeare in china because chinese recognize the tremendous cultural..."
"...edge cases breaks the system down. Okay, right. And so the classic example is self driving cars. We have cars that drive for a..."
"people become desensitized over time and the classic example is oh my god is gaza where you know this really is committed genocide in..."
"...comment here. So let's do this as the last one. The classic Trump Friday announcements to manipulate the market. False social posts rarely have..."
"unfortunately unfortunately uh robert cement says the classic trump friday announcement to manipulate the market false social uh posts really have any truth to..."
"...are extreme, okay? And we call them eschatologies, okay? So the classic example is the Jewish religion, right? In a Jewish religion, what you..."
"...next, to the next, to the next. Okay? This is the classic escalation ladder. Iran is not like this. Their decision tree is different...."
"...by exploiting the mass. All right? So basically, landlords are a classic type of rent seeking elite. And so they don't really work, but..."
"...and dependent on it. Dependent on the technology, right? So, the classic example, of course, is our school where you have access to chat..."
"...Iranian strategy, okay? So what the Americans are using is a classic strategy called siege warfare, okay? And so what the Iranians are gonna..."
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