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In Jiang's reading of Faust, Mephistopheles' wager is to make Faust complacent and lose curiosity, not merely to tempt him with ordinary sin.
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Complacency
In Jiang's reading of Faust, Mephistopheles' wager is to make Faust complacent and lose curiosity, not merely to tempt him with ordinary sin.
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Faust loses the wager when he wants to stay forever in the moment of civic fulfillment, but angels take his soul because God values striving and mercy over contractual damnation.
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"God you know what the worst thing you ever did was allow humans the capacity to reason. Because you're idiots. You're stupid. If you're..."
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"This is Mephistopheles saying to God their lives will be a little easier if you not let them glimpse the light of heaven. They..."
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"Okay, so he is an architect, and he is an urban planner working for the government. He's a civil servant, basically. And his job..."
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"But because he's seeking pride in this moment, he's now lost a bet to Mephistopheles, right? He's now become complacent. He wants to live..."
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"In this moment, when he feels he's contributed to development of society, he feels at peace. He feels fulfilled, okay? And so, the irony..."
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"They've snatched it away with cunning even, but whom could I even complain to anyway, okay? So Mephistopheles knows he's been tricked. But he..."
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"...and this is actually more important, problem is the idea of complacency, where if you think you have nuclear weapons, or sorry, if you..."
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