Jiang contrasts his college-era norm of free speech as a primary ideal with a present culture of cancellation and harsh punishment for speech.
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Hermeticism includes polarity and generation: opposite principles meet to generate new reality through a thesis-antithesis-synthesis movement.
Jiang says the classroom preference for safe space marks a generational divide from his youth, when free space was assumed to be the educational default.
Jiang interprets the image of Pentheus's mother holding her son's head as a metaphor for war and empire, where old people send children to fight and die for their glory.
Jiang distinguishes the older World War II and Cold War generation from the 2003 generation by saying the older generation knew war was bloody and terrible, while the later generation experienced the Gulf War as video-game spectacle.
Jiang says Covid lockdowns benefited boomers with assets and health-risk concerns while damaging young people's mental health, schooling, and economic prospects.
Jiang says the laws of polarity, vibration, rhythm, cause and effect, correspondence, and generation explain how consciousness and matter move together through patterned creation.
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"this is a different time um I mean when I was growing up when we were in college like like free speech was the..."
"...extremes, into opposites. Then this gives rise to the idea of generation, the generative principle, okay? So you have generation and production. So production..."
"Number four is cause and effect, where if you make one movement in the material world, you can also influence the divine, okay? You..."
"in the 80s you had the reagan revolution the reagan revolution was opportunity for people with talent with ability to make as much money..."
"staring at a screen for eight hours a day um it destroyed the economy right if you were poor you became even more poor..."
"makes you to do certain things okay so so so that's the truth of the world where what matters is consciousness because consciousness is..."
"have the law of vibration meaning that things just move okay consciousness is always moving and that's what creates information you're the law of..."
"...thoughts then you have something called um the the law of generation which is to say that the world the universe is moving towards..."
"control okay right but the problem is this is a conflict right if the teachers care about safe space you cannot have free space..."
"So Pentheus climbs the tree and he hangs by the branch, okay? And he has a very clear view of the Bacchae who are..."
"Here it is, okay? And it takes a very long time for the people of Thebes to convince her, that's not a lion's head,..."
"It's really a metaphor or an image for war and empire, okay? Because remember, the Pelagian War is really about building empire, right? Athens..."
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