Jiang's modern analogy presents Virgil's conception of love as the soul expanding outward to possess, dominate, or control another beautiful soul.
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Domination
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Jiang begins defining the psychology of hell as a desire to control others, expressed through bossiness and domination.
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"You, you wanna go say hi, like, Hey, how are you? You sit down beside her. Okay. And, um, what, what happens next? Okay...."
"...guys the point of society is not to engage in world domination okay the point of our society at this time in history is..."
"Yeah. If Tucker Carlson left Fox over the 2020 election domination trial and you say Matt Rowe was captured to testify. Yeah. If Tucker..."
"...is a company that is first and foremost focused on world domination, because only by controlling the world can you achieve AGI, even though..."
"...who wanted to use these radical tools to rearrange the falling domination over the West with drastic radical measures. And after that, to say,..."
"...the power as such, that nude, uh, naked Western power, hegemony, domination, in open. And Trump fits very well to that. So he is..."
"...what role the people play in trying to secure the global domination of the West, we could not respect them. So we understand that..."
"...focus more on consumerism. Okay? And the last idea is global domination where in order for global trade to happen, America will provide security..."
"...want. We're not part of a secret society bent on world domination."
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