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Decay

Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.

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2026-01-21 lecture reading and gloss of poetry's preserving power

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Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.

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History As River, Prophecy As Plan

2026-04-09, day precision · Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination

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"All right. If mass organization are the primary cause of imperial decay, why are unlimited population, unlimited land, so there's reasons that US TechNet..."

The End of the End of History

2026-03-24, day precision · Game Theory #15: The Return of History

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"...problem, though, is that over time, these three pillars started to decay. Right? So Pax Americana started to itself ignore the rules based on..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

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"...The Dongmei are very important people. But over time, empires will decay. In 1853, Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire. And this led to the..."

The Pyramid That Tried To End History

2024-11-26, day precision · Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project

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"...logical flaws in the society that will lead to their eventual decay. Because even though the Old Kingdom will collapse, the society is very..."

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The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization

2026-01-21, day precision · claims

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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...

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