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Jiang says Dante knowingly lets Cavalcante believe Guido is dead instead of simply telling the truth that he is alive in Florence.
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Cruelty
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A generous explanation is that Cavalcante would know if Guido were dead and in Hell, but Jiang still treats Dante's response as deceptive and cruel.
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Jiang accepts a student's formulation that as Dante descends he becomes both more pious and more cruel.
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Jiang's Princeton-envelope story is meant to explain Dante's cruelty by showing how meritocratic competition turns intimacy into rivalry.
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Jiang links the ruthless competition of Florence in Dante to modern competitive behavior such as hiding a classmate's admission letter, arguing that rivalry turns even friends into enemies.
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Jiang argues Spanish cruelty to native peoples was not unique compared with previous native overlords, because those prior religious hierarchies had already enslaved and dominated surrounding people.
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Jiang argues that elite sexual blackmail is not the primary motive for these operations because the participants also genuinely enjoy the abuse and seek power in order to practice cruelty without consequence.
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"dante uh says line 61 i answered my own powers have not brought me he who awaits me there leads me through here perhaps..."
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"so imagine what's going on cover kante asked dante where is my son and dante is like um god disdains him and then cover..."
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"great life back in florence that's why he couldn't be here right instead dante kind of lies and says well um it's your son..."
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"uh yes i mean so that the father knows that the son is not in hell because if he was dead i mean because..."
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"that's a generous explanation but um it's you're still lying you know he's alive back in florence"
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"why would he do that yes oh he's in hell go with the flow right like i noticed too like as he as we..."
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"all right so let me tell you a story okay this happened um in china where there were two students at uh qinghua university..."
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"that's that that that's correct yes i understand but i'm saying like what sort of culture what sort of environment would would create that..."
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"winner takes all unforgiving culture right well dante and guido are competing to be the best poet in italy and right now who who's..."
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"...idea here, where this competition is leading people to the greatest cruelty, unimaginable cruelty. Like, the father is dead, man. The father is burning..."
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"It's like killing him twice. Because, like, your only consolation if you're burning in hell is, well, at least my son is doing well..."
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"who was out to save the world um you know her her father was um Conrad Maxwell who was clearly I mean like like..."
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