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Jiang says humans are imagination personified, and when one expressive sense is blocked, imagination finds another route through sight, sign, vibration, song, or emotional intelligence.
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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 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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Jiang explains Paleolithic care for disabled or ill people through cosmic unity, stronger preliterate empathy, and a valuation of diversity as divine gift.
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In response to the student, Jiang says some rejected autistic, disabled, or different children can return to the divine because society does not want them.
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The care and burial of a dwarf skeleton are used as evidence that hunter-gatherer communities could be highly compassionate toward disabled members.
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Jiang argues that high frequencies of disability and high levels of care in Paleolithic burials support the idea that disabled people may have been valued as shamans.
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"Another important fact about human beings that is not really understood is we are obsessed with being creative and expressing ourselves. That's who we..."
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"when they're together, they're able to communicate emotionally and that brings tremendous joy and comfort to them. Okay? Does that make sense? All right,..."
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"He was able to create music that was unique in human history. Others hear the music, but he saw the music and it turned..."
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"So, why would they do that? Well, there are three possibilities, okay? The first possibility is, it's really about maintaining cosmic balance and harmony...."
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"But back then, they saw difference and diversity as gifts from God. Right? So, if you're a dwarf, it meant you had something special..."
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"So, if you were different, if you were deformed, if you were ill, they saw you as blessed rather than cursed. And that's what..."
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"...Alzheimer's, autistic people. So, would you say that people with cognitive disability in, like, modern age are, like, closer to the divine? We're, like,..."
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"Yeah. Good question. Okay. Yeah. So, first of all, we're all connected to the divine, but we just choose to forget we're connected to..."
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"Right? So, kids who are autistic, kids with disabilities, kids who are just different. Okay? Once you discard it, they actually return to the..."
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"Okay, and this is actually a more clearer picture of shamans trying to access, you know, the spirit world. of shamans trying to access,..."
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"being a hunter -gatherer, you would think that they would discard the dwarf, kill the dwarf, or maybe leave the dwarf behind, okay? But,..."
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"And being a dwarf, it makes the most sense to be a shaman, not only because people think you're special, but because you can..."
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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 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...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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