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Jiang uses the phrase for the social discipline required to endure hardship, pain, and reduced expectations during decline.
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eat bitterness
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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 says the CCP itself has already framed the present as a coming period of hardship in which people must eat bitterness and endure pain, suffering, and misery.
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"...period of hardship and decline and we need to, uh, circle eat bitterness. We need to, um, withstand the pain and suffering and misery...."
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"...get more benefit, you know? The sweet always come after the bitterness, right? Yes?"
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"...i now am lost and in this garb i move in bitterness and with this his words were at an end the flame departed..."
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"...is the father whose presumptuous tasting caused humankind to taste such bitterness. And on the right, you see that ancient father of holy church..."
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"...lifted me up and took me away and i went in bitterness and the anger of my spirit with the strong hand of the..."
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"...through what my poems say. Down in the world of endless bitterness and on the mountain from whose lovely peak I was drawn upward..."
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"...everything there is devil he had to come to experience the bitterness of death as well that's fine I replied the answer is good..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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