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Jiang argues that universities and schools can behave like rent-seeking institutions because the degree functions as a ticket to social mobility, so students are stuck paying for credential access.
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Degrees
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...purpose, in going to university? Be honest. It's to get the degree, right? Okay? The degree. Okay? And the degree, is your ticket, to..."
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"Okay? So, the degree is basically, rent. Does that make sense? Okay? Now, some of you may say, wait, that's wrong, because, I'm going..."
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"And all this process, is paying rent. Right? So, if you are, if you have, a school, you can charge for rent. Just as,..."
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"...think about it telepathy telekinesis is also possible to a certain degree okay um and this is something we'll discuss as we continue the"
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"...it could put them onto um and to to a great degree about their ability to manipulate others just through the status and sometimes..."
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"...like those we sometimes bear in dreams, each in his own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of..."
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"...like those we sometimes bear in dreams. Each in his own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of..."
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"...whatever jobs that you want because they do filter your first degree, right? And so I actually do believe in this narrative. I think..."
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"...how Lucifer managed constant adversity for mortals in any and every degree is God's will."
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"...and my wonderment for though the sun had fully climbed 50 degrees i had not noticed it and when we came to the point..."
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"...does donnie say about time yes the sun has climbed 50 degrees yeah and that's physical time but what could could you um yeah..."
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"...in my wonderment for though the sun had fully climbed 50 degrees i had not noticed it when we came to the point at..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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