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He argues that once a society becomes decadent, elites cease caring about family or social reproduction and instead openly indulge desire without responsibility to the broader society.
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Students and Jiang agree that Dante treats the nobility as entitled and fundamentally bad rather than as a healthy ruling class.
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AI becomes a new elite because the legitimacy crisis of monetary elites opens space for a rival power centered on data, sorting, and automated pattern matching.
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He rejects the idea that peace is temporary and tied only to leadership changes, arguing the conflict is also driven by structural internal tensions and elite competition.
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When elites become hereditary, religion changes from creative energy into bureaucracy: fixed rules, hierarchy, and obedience.
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Jiang leaves the identity of the enslaving powers indeterminate, saying they could be elites, powers that be, or demons, but their function is to make movies, the internet, and social media feel real.
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He defines transhumanism as the capacity to live forever, with elite access to longevity, organ transplants, stem cells, gene therapy, blood transfusion, replacement bodies, beauty, and pleasure.
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Jiang identifies the dominant school story of civilization as a Marxist-developmental sequence from agriculture and surplus to elites, cities, writing, property, religion, arts, science, war, slavery, and debt.
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"...family okay but once a society has become decadent then the elite don't really care about society all they care about is indulging in..."
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"society just becomes the anchor it just goes into free fall okay and um yes i mean i don't want to say homosexuality is..."
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"They're a bad thing. So, so what is, so what do you do with them? Get rid of them? What would you do?"
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"...it makes people question the authority and the legitimacy of the elite. And because of elite overproduction this gives a possibility for a new..."
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"when you use AI what you're trying to do is you take out your database you have a lot of information in this database..."
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"Let's just say you have like a billion faces one billion faces. Now what you're trying to do is you're trying to differentiate these..."
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"We have seven more classes left in the semester and what I want to do in this last seven classes is Look at the..."
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"...within these countries. So before we looked at the idea of elite overduck overproduction hmm, and so the idea is that the elite are..."
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"Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the..."
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"...rate is that you have a smaller and smaller group of elites who are an elite, you know, generation who support the regime and..."
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"...speaking Russian. We are talking about that. Putin knows that. Some elite, spiritual, scientific elite knows that. But that's all. But in spite of..."
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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