Jiang argues that America was deliberately designed as an anti-civilization: a new Enlightenment government meant to overcome the prejudice and atrocity of older civilizations.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Key Notes
Jiang suggests this prophetic program may stretch back to America's founding and connect through later events such as JFK and 9/11.
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"...you can legitimately argue that this goes way back to the founding of America, that America was founded in order to achieve this biblical..."
"...in many ways, it was designed as the anti -civilization. The founding fathers of America recognized the failings and problems of civilization and designed..."
"And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument..."
"...to kill Pallas in order to live. The story of the founding of Rome is that Romulus and Remus were twins. And they grew..."
"...this live stream format. I tried my first live stream with founding members last week. It went pretty well, but it was pretty exhausting...."
"...for page subscribers okay so this live stream is only for founding members next week will be for paper pay subscribers and you're all..."
"...of my teaching. And so I would like to thank the founding members today by, first of all, pointing out their generosity, but also..."
"...do is I'm going to read all the questions from the founding members on Substack. There's a lot. And after that, we will look..."
"...summarize what he's saying is that freemasons were critical in america's founding and benjamin franklin uh was a freemason alexander hamilton uh mother was..."
"...after after the civil war right and this led to the founding of the federal reserve which led to brendan woods okay so what..."
"...Sunday, June 7th, okay? So I'll send a note to all founding members that we'll be doing this live stream as an experiment. And..."
"...one will miss the content. But during the live stream, only founding members or paid subscribers will be able to participate, okay?"
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