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5 timestamped hits 3 source readings 3 extracted notes Newest source: 2025-08-08, day precision Aliases: course-previews

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Course Preview

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It's gonna be a really interesting class. I'm really looking forward to teaching it. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you. I'll also..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It's gonna be a really interesting class. I'm really looking forward to teaching it. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you. I'll also..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Old Sacrifice The Young (2025-08-08, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Old Sacrifice The Young; The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses; The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology.

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Key Notes

Announcement made on 2025-08-08 about the following week.

prediction

Jiang says the next video will preview three classes: Secret History of the World, Great Books, and Game Theory.

Course chronology preview in 2025-02-25 lecture.

evidence

The Western Roman Empire's end in 476 was not immediately understood as an end by people still imagining Roman continuity, after which civil wars led toward the Holy Roman Empire, Vikings, Abbasids, Mongols, and Renaissance.

Course-sequence preview in the 2024-12-10 lecture.

prediction

The next lecture is previewed as Zoroastrianism, whose merger with the Bible under Persian imperial conditions will create ideas that become the basis of Christianity.

Timestamped Evidence

The Old Sacrifice The Young

2025-08-08, day precision · Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed

Transcript

"It's gonna be a really interesting class. I'm really looking forward to teaching it. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you. I'll also..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology

2024-12-10, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...

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