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Jiang invokes Dante's hostility to prophecy because prediction can shrink the felt space of human choice.
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fortune tellers
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...class, what we did discuss is Darnay has particular hatred towards fortune tellers. He has a place in hell for them, and he thinks..."
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Jiang connects Dante's hatred of fortune tellers to a critique of tragedies where prophecy appears to reduce choice, asking whether Macbeth's world is ruled by gods or predictions that manipulate human action.
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Jiang identifies the backward-looking sinners as fortune tellers who claimed to see the future and sold that claim to others.
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Jiang says influential journalists, podcasters, and YouTube celebrities with agendas are modern equivalents of fortune tellers because they tell rulers or publics what they want to hear in order to steer action.
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Jiang explains trust in fortune tellers by saying Greek religion treated seers and prophets as interpreters of the gods' will.
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"...class, what we did discuss is Darnay has particular hatred towards fortune tellers. He has a place in hell for them, and he thinks..."
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"Because if you think about it, if Tiresias, the fortune tellers, didn't provide these fortunes, then Oedipus would not have had the tragedy that..."
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"...right these are people who are going to look behind them fortune teller exactly right these are fortune tellers these are people who lie..."
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"the fortune tellers okay they are condemned to always walk with their uh head turned backwards so they can they can never see in..."
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"...have an agenda um they are the moderately moderately equivalent of fortune tellers right because the way that you would influence a king is..."
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"Oh, that's a great question. Why do people trust the fortune tellers? Because remember, everyone's religious. So the fortune tellers speak on behalf of..."
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"...oh you're gonna self -fulfill that prophecy so like whatever the fortune teller tells you kind of sets your path and you don't have..."
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"...for why he really done it really really doesn't like these fortune tellers he doesn't really like the idea of fortune telling uh yes..."
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"fortune teller if you become a famous fortune teller the net effect is you using the total amount of imagination that that you know..."
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"...not shrink sure yes exactly and also a lot of these fortune tellers are doing for profit right they often do it to make..."
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"...prophet to prove himself he must go to war with other fortune tellers with other diviners to prove that i am truly the messenger..."
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"...that he is the true prophet to dante if you're a fortune teller and you predict some predict something right then that shows you..."
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