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Statius says he was not greedy but excessively wasteful, and Jiang reads Dante as treating opposite extremes as morally linked enough to share punishment.
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Jiang says Statius treats wastefulness and greed as opposite extremes that collapse into the same moral structure.
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Jiang says many young people experimenting with fascism, Nazism, communism, or other extremes are not committed believers so much as people testing options after legitimacy collapses.
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"me and i am not the only one who is not the only one who is drain the appetite of mortals i'd now while..."
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"...i was wasteful but it's the laws of nature that one extreme that you the two extremes are basically the same thing okay so..."
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"I mean personally yeah and and so I think a lot of it is not like they're they're personally drawn to fascism or Nazism..."
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"...mindset, right? So the real distinction is between hell, like the extremes of hell and heaven. Purgatory is just the process."
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"...a lot about yesterday as well, because we went a bit extreme yesterday, and maybe we said a lot of things that were actually..."
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"...can choose to rebel i i know it sounds a bit extreme but that's how donnie sees the world"
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"...they are eaten alive. So then they do all kinds of extreme outrageous things because blood and gore is what sells the newspaper. So..."
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"...is not something that'll get you into heaven, is the two extremes that Aristotle would see would be cowardice, but then also recklessness. Yes...."
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"A couple of times last year. So it wasn't, like, extreme, but still, like, enough to feel, like, some extra forces. So it's really..."
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"...represents a, like an inward churning, right? A narcissism that is extreme. So yeah."
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"it like extreme wealth inequality yes exactly great extreme wealth equality yes self indulgence self indulgence yes um not being able to express uh..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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