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Jiang says Satan's attempt to separate from the body is like an organ becoming cancerous, only to discover that outside the body it has no purpose and simply decays.
Another student reaches for original sin as the cause of decay in humans, while admitting that this does not obviously explain why plants and animals also perish.
Jiang says the long-run result of that expansion is exhaustion: whether Russia wins or loses, the empire eventually decays because it fights too many wars at once.
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.
Jiang says exorbitant privilege harms the hegemon by encouraging lack of discipline, corruption, oligarchy, inequality, and complacency.
"...as an organ have actually no purpose. And so you just decay and become dead."
"...sin, but doesn't doesn't explain the plants and the animals and decay."
"...lose or they win, but everyone's exhausted and then they just decay in parallel. Okay? So I myself don't see Russia as having a..."
"...the world's global wealth and this can only lead to the decay the corruption and"
"ultimately the demise of your society so um exorbitant privilege has led to corruption it's led to inequality uh it's led to complacency um..."
"...inhabit into the universe of fire. of things, poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man, okay? There's God in us,..."
"...the homosexuals take over. And this creates factionalism, this creates moral decay, this creates lawlessness, this creates corruption. So, does this make sense now?"
"...to ensure that the mission continues despite the corruption and the decay of the catholic church and these two princes are saint francis will..."
"...the dynamics of like, you know, crushing debt, expanded military, cultural decay, like there's a lot for sure. I guess I would just say..."
"...like slaughtering babies? It just like it leads to this moral decay in a country. Obviously, it bankrupts the country financially. And no, it's..."
"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..."
"...problem, though, is that over time, these three pillars started to decay. Right? So Pax Americana started to itself ignore the rules based on..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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...
The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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