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Jiang answers the fictional-character objection by saying fiction does not invent unreal beings but summons real persons from an infinite universe, a view the class links to archetypes.
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Fiction
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "this uh historical figures into your mind um it's like a seance right uh but what it but can you like summon this like..."
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Jiang says fiction feels real because it explains universal truths rather than because it invents arbitrary novelty.
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Jiang argues that before David nothing in the Bible has been proven historical, and the Bible's events do not connect cleanly as either chronology or pure fiction.
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Jiang calls capital a bubble and a fiction when it becomes detached from work and production, turning wealth into rent-seeking speculation.
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He argues that reading literature is traditionally the best school-based path into empathy because fiction trains people to understand the world through different characters and writers already practice deep imaginative understanding.
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"this uh historical figures into your mind um it's like a seance right uh but what it but can you like summon this like..."
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"...universe right so there's infinite people so so when you're writing fiction all you're doing is you're summoning someone from here yes well so..."
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"through this lens like the fictional characters uh are basically real characters like they're not really that's right like we're all sort of part..."
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"yes because we read fiction where we read it because it's real to us right because explaining these universal truths to us uh yes..."
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"...makes no sense if you see this as a work of fiction like a lot of people do this doesn't make much sense either..."
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"...Why is it a bubble? Because, capital isn't real. It's a fiction. You understand? So, in other words, you, you don't work anymore. You..."
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"...the best way to teach empathy in schools. I mean, literature, fiction is fundamentally about trying to understand the world through the perspectives of..."
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