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Bromwich argues that Macbeth's way of isolating the deed in one place and one time is not unique to him but expresses a fantasy common to hard ambition more generally.
Jiang interprets Francesca's lust as falling in love with an idea or romance plot rather than with a real person.
In Jiang's contrast, paying for sex expresses ego and money power, while Francesca-style lust expresses insufficient will and a retreat into fantasy.
Francesca is condemned because she escapes into fantasy rather than acting on real love for a real person.
A student argues lust violates free will even in fantasy because the mind already performs a violating act against another person.
Jiang says the meditation solution fails because Harold Rubin prefers the fantasy of Diane Webber to meeting the real person, since reality would shatter the religion he built around her.
The Hollywood-Pentagon complex is not uniquely American; each institutional sector lives in its own fantasy of control, making objective agency over the system difficult.
Jiang says a legal structure makes ordinary people enforce the fantasy: if someone exposes the deception, people around him will punish him for breaking their world.
"That's the fantasy nursed by Macbeth. And I want to suggest it's also a fantasy common to all ambition. Ambition in that sense, in..."
"okay okay yeah exactly okay so let me give you an example to illustrate this with will okay with sorry with lust so again..."
"he depicts lust but normally we depict lust as maybe uh the most common example is you really like like a woman and you..."
"...is a problem because lust is like you're escaping to a fantasy right francisca's escaping to a fantasy if she really loved um the..."
"here yes um so uh before you mentioned that free will is god's most precious gift to us and when you're lusting over someone..."
"...what you recognize is that Harold Rubin, ultimately, he lives a fantasy because even though it sounds great that through meditation, you can become..."
"...okay? Diane Weber is not a real person. It's just a fantasy. He does not want to meet the real Diane Weber because meeting..."
"that China is competitor to the system, we need to appreciate that China is really an extension of the system. So if this system..."
"...everyone just basically lives in his own bubble, in his own fantasy world, about being able to see the bigger picture. And that's why..."
"...the people around you will kill you because you're breaking their fantasy okay there's a showing the fantasy all right so this is a..."
"absolutely it was an extraordinary statement actually you um i i i think there's a bit of both in this i think i think..."
"...government tells the truth. So we like to live in a fantasy world. Okay? So this is what keeps the system intact. Okay? So..."
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.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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