Jiang says Plato's route to the Monad is elitist because it requires mathematical and geometric knowledge that only a few can access.
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Elitism
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Jiang treats Joyce's Ulysses as a founding modernist work that imitates and tries to surpass Dante while turning literature toward style, music, allusion, and elite interpretation.
Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.
He describes China as a competitive elitist system that sorts students from day one through feeder schools into top universities.
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"I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives..."
"So the Monad in the conception of everything is the same, okay? It is a source of everything. Plato and Dante are proposing different..."
"Right? So Plato's like, you have to do calculus. Plato's like, and Dante's like, that's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the..."
"So arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He..."
"Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay. It's meant..."
"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."
"It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what..."
"Thinking about it off the top of my head, I would say the big difference is that in Canada, we're very focused on equity..."
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