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Jiang closes by asking students to reflect on how the course and divine calling have changed them, which frames the seminar itself as a transformational practice rather than only textual analysis.
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Carol clarifies that the setup is not a formal academic course or program and points students who want that model toward other Dante courses.
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The course offers a path rather than instant immortality or godhood; the path requires focus and sacrifice over a lifelong journey.
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The YouTube channel began as a review aid for Chinese students but rapidly became a global audience after growing from roughly 300 subscribers at the beginning of May to about 25,000 by this recording.
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Jiang says his immediate plan is to finish four more classes in his course and that those classes will focus heavily on secret societies.
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Peter closes by inviting Jiang back, directing listeners to Predictive History outlets, and linking the conversation to a Stoa course, which frames the event as both interview and audience funnel.
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Jiang says his upcoming fall course will be on the secret history of the world and will trace how intelligence and religion together shape world history.
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He says spring offerings will include a great-books course for general audiences and a game-theory course designed to teach people how he sees the world.
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"...And so, um, yeah. So, uh, uh, think of how this course has changed you. Okay. And think about how the divine calling has..."
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"Okay. This, this will be really important for tomorrow's discussion. All right. I'll see you ever tomorrow. Bye."
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"This is not a course. Okay. It's not an academic program. There's, for example, an Open也 course by a professor on Dante in translation...."
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"They are the secret of what it means to be human. They provide the secret of how to be truly, fully human. All right?..."
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"But it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all..."
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"No, I mean, I'm really focused on finishing my, my course. So, I have four more classes to, to teach and I'm pretty excited..."
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"...called uh what's it called uh worldview um studies it's a course at the stoa uh so you can sign up for that the..."
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"...students in China. And what I do is I upload the courses to YouTube. So in the fall semester, I'll be teaching a course..."
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"...help you better understand the world. So these are three new courses that are coming up. They'll all be on YouTube. It's all free...."
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"...of psychohistory. And that's my long -term thinking. So about this course. So I initially uploaded the classes so that my students can review..."
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"This past month, something odd happened. My channel just blew up. I went from like 300 subscribers at the beginning of May. To about..."
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Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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