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The pursuit of curiosity, modeled through listening to people with genuine interest.
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Jiang reads Homer's Odyssey as a journey home to family rather than a celebration of endless outward exploration.
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Jiang says the first modern myth is that humans are driven by material desire; his counterclaim is that humans are fundamentally religious-spiritual beings who want to create, love, connect, differentiate, and explore.
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Industrial capitalism required several contingent religious and geopolitical revolutions rather than a simple technological law of history.
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China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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War with the Ottoman Empire and the age of exploration pushed European science because conquest required navigation tools, compasses, and astrolabes.
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He says Augustine turns curiosity and exploration from human goods into signs of evil that can only lead to sin.
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Jiang links this doctrine of passivity and obedience to the beginning of the Dark Ages because it prevents questioning, exploration, and social innovation.
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Jiang argues that school teaches the opposite of exploration by telling students not to explore and to do what the teacher says.
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"damides and that's why they're shoving together um point three is that if you actually read homer's odyssey it's a very different take on..."
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"about food and never about stories and tradition and religion and I think this goes back to the idea that for the longest time..."
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"understanding of human evolution most of it comes from the imperial age right uh the 19th century late 19th century when the Europeans dominated..."
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"...want us to believe that like every study was engaged in exploration in an intellectual pursuits um in trying to be one with the..."
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"was saying you have tremendous residences in Hinduism in Buddhism in Eastern philosophy um so so so I think it's really important to understand..."
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"Why is there a helicopter? Why is there a cat? Okay? Well, that's how we truly are. Okay? We don't have a concept of..."
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"They're not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So, why do we want... So, what do we..."
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"be different we want we want to be creative the third thing is we are curious and want to explore and that's what explains..."
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"Same thing with the Cultural Revolution where the Cultural Revolution removed the old elite, the bureaucrats. So in the 1980s when China opened up,..."
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"Okay? The Holy Trinity is the weirdest idea in human history. The Holy Trinity is this. God is nothing and everything. Okay? And what..."
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"...believe they are the elect. Okay? And then, the age of exploration where the old world, Europe could go and create new markets and..."
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"...over to Europe, the compass will bring in the age of exploration, right? It will allow Europe to conquer the entire world. The age..."
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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 turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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