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Jiang says astrology and astronomy matter in the Divine Comedy because they register the cyclical movement of the universe.
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Jiang says human life and empire operate through unavoidable cycles of rise and fall, and the arrogant belief that one can stop or end history only produces destruction.
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He argues that history moves in recurring cycles such as rise and fall, civilization and barbarity, and that these patterns should be treated like natural events rather than moral verdicts.
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He says repeated expulsions follow cyclical bad times: Jewish communities maintain separation to preserve faith, then become targets of blame during crisis, move elsewhere, and restart the same endurance pattern.
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Capitalism gives rise to wealth but also destroys wealth because change is constant and things move in cycles.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is framed as traumatic for Europe but not unique in human history; Jiang compares it to the rise and collapse of Maya civilization from about 200 AD through 1200 AD.
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Drawing on Spengler, Jiang argues that civilizations are meant to be born, rise, and die, and that civilizational death is not only normal but often necessary for renewal.
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Greg says he expects the holiday season and the opening of 2026 to be prime time for psyops or attacks from the controller class, and he links his next material to Mayan-calendar cycles and change.
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"Okay, so another thing that I'll point out is that astrology, astronomy are very important in the Divine Comedy. Again, I don't know astrology,..."
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"...have come to an understanding, which is the world works in cycles. You rise, you fall, you live, you die. There's summer, there's winter...."
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"...not beneficial. That's not how history works, okay? History works in cycles, rise, fall, up, down, civilization, and then barbarity, okay? There's something good..."
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"...bad, the Jews always get blamed. And, again, history goes in cycles, and so whenever there's a bad time, the Jews get expelled from..."
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"well I'll refer to Oswald Spengler here right for Oswald Spengler a civilization is no different from a human life it's meant to be..."
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"So, I think all civilizations, they should die at some point, because then it allows for innovation, human creativity to flourish. The problem with..."
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"...that and i'll see you soon about the mayan calendar and cycles and change etc so i don't know 2026 isn't exactly a timeline..."
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"enough nothing you under the Sun indeed but as I said um where I think people can sometimes go wrong is if they make..."
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"...the way it is. Change is a constant. Things move in cycles. Capitalism gives rise to wealth, but it also destroys wealth. That's just..."
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"...importantly an objective and honest look at empire game theory and cycles and ways that help us better contextualize"
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"Any questions so far? Are we clear? Alright. So, one thing that you have made, that you have made notice in this class is..."
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"Okay? In the year 900, its civilization was over the place, in Central America. But then, after the Mayas, after 900, it went all..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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