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Jiang claims homosexuality was widespread among elite classes across societies and should not be treated as a rare aberration in Dante's time.
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Another student argues that ostensible openness can actually produce closure, invoking a line of thought similar to The Closing of the American Mind.
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He uses Starbucks as an example of how Chinese elites came to treat American consumer habits as proof of class status and worldliness.
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Jiang argues that right before striking, the attacking side tries to present itself as a peacemaker, both to misdirect the target and because the elite treat the deception almost as an inside joke or cult ritual.
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"Okay, guys, okay, I hate to say this, okay? All right, I'm sorry. This might get me bad on YouTube, okay? But if you..."
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"And especially during the Hellenistic period, it is actually a greater way to show your intellectual ability to have another male partner tend to..."
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"Actually, I don't think homosexuality means that they're embracing everything and openness. I think it actually means the opposite. There's a book called The..."
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"Right. So, I mean, the reality in China is that for the past 30, 40 years, China has really embraced the West. So there..."
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"So, you know, right before Trump attacked Iran, there was peace negotiations. Right. So it was almost like they caught Iran off guard or..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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