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Jiang presents John and Judith Valero as a conventional but unhappy marriage chosen to test Williamson's liberation theory.
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Convention
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...And his wife is named Judith. And they are in a convention. Conventional marriage, which is to say that they are in an unhappy..."
Key Notes
model
The pearl parable teaches that fearlessness and refusal to obey convention are what make a person wealthy and powerful.
normative
Frank’s anti-rabbinic line is interpreted as a command to think for yourself rather than obey human rabbis.
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"...And his wife is named Judith. And they are in a convention. Conventional marriage, which is to say that they are in an unhappy..."
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"...very wealthy. So in this world, what matters is not obey conventions, not, what matters is not listening to other people, conforming to other..."
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"What matters is your fearlessness, okay? Just go do it, man. Seize it, and you'll become wealthy. That's what this world is about, okay?..."
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"There is no people like the Jews. They are like snakes and crocodiles, for there is no love at all among them, but only..."
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"...thing where a thousand, ten thousand men can't lift up? It's convention. It's social convention. Right? It's laws that we agree on. It's morality...."
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"These rabbis are human as well. Think for yourself. Okay? See the truth for yourself. And that's what he's teaching his followers. All right...."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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