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Jiang argues that transgression feels empowering and addictive because breaking the rule makes the actor feel more powerful than parents, teachers, or authority.
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Empowerment
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And I think everyone who follows the livestream will feel empowered to confront the Divine Comedy by himself or herself. It's a really, really..."
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Transgression is presented as proving faith by rejecting human morality and social taboo, producing liberation and empowerment through violation.
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He says the Divine Comedy should leave readers empowered to confront the text for themselves because the work is meant to initiate a spiritual journey through life.
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Jiang's teacher goal is to make himself redundant by giving students tools and a new pair of eyes for seeing themselves, the world, and texts.
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Jiang says he may take a few months off to write a book about game theory so that people feel more empowered to understand global events.
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He contrasts Finland's mentality of empowering each child with what he describes as a Chinese mentality of the rich protecting themselves and neglecting the rest of society.
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"And I think everyone who follows the livestream will feel empowered to confront the Divine Comedy by himself or herself. It's a really, really..."
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"That's my goal as a teacher to sort of make myself redundant in their lives. So not just teaching them the content,"
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"Yeah. And that's why students enjoy learning because it's empowering for them. It's, it's, it's like you're, you're giving them a new learning opportunity...."
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"Yeah. So, um, I want to take things we discuss the Kabbalah and the war of spirit and systemize it better and presented to..."
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"let's go to store and steal a candy that Kenny may cost $1 nothing right but you try it and you are terrified you're..."
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"and you keep on going because it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know..."
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"So these are the Calvinists, right? They argue that to show your true faith in God, and for you to prove to yourself God..."
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"...start a new class and this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is I want..."
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"get expelled from school you might be jailed your parents may punish you you may be outcast from society and then I tell you..."
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"But it's a very different mentality. The mentality in Finland is how can we make sure that each of our kids is empowered to..."
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"...what seems to be your goal here which is around that empowerment of students as learners and as thinkers would you say that's your..."
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"...process of acceleration. But most importantly, it's a path towards self -empowerment, self -knowledge. And that's very much a Franken's attitude that we have..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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