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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "No. I mean... Sure. Bullshit, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right? Flattery. Bullshit. Yes. You're just BS -ing other people all the time, okay? So..."
Jiang says the sinners drowning in excrement are flatterers and habitual bullshitters, so the punishment is being submerged in the substance they produced socially.
Nonviolent social control is modeled through shame, gossip, sex, and flattery rather than coercive force.
"No. I mean... Sure. Bullshit, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right? Flattery. Bullshit. Yes. You're just BS -ing other people all the time, okay? So..."
"Okay? So, that's one thing that women are better at. Women are better at collaborating and compromising. That's the first thing. Second thing is..."
"As a way to punish him. But this is all very subtle and non -violent ways of forcing people to conform to the rules..."
"...not using violence. You're using the idea of gossip, shame, and flattery. And that's what women do really well. Do you understand? Okay. Does..."
"...the contrary so go away and do not harass me your flattery is you useless in this valley at that i grabbed him by..."
"...speeds and helps you as you say there's no need of flattery it is enough indeed to ask me for her sake go then..."
"Line 58. Hypocrisy and flattery, sorcerers and falsifiers, simony and theft, and barators and panders, and like trash. And in the former way of..."
"...he continued pounding on his pate. I'm plunged here because of flatteries of which my tongue had such sufficiency, at which my guide advised..."
"As you say, there is no need of flattery. It is enough, indeed, to ask me for her sake. Go then, but first wind..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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