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He says the course teaches that evil must triumph so good may rise, total darkness is needed for light, and hope must end so humans can become hope themselves.
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He says the course teaches that evil must triumph so good may rise, total darkness is needed for light, and hope must end so humans can become hope themselves.
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Jiang rejects the simple heaven-and-final-judgment ending: truth is a constant process of becoming, struggle, pain, and tragedy from which hope, virtue, and good can be built.
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Children give Jiang hope, energy, purpose, and a reason to build a teaching legacy even though he describes himself as extremely pessimistic about the world's direction.
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Jiang frames the final class as a movement from the semester's bleak world analysis toward hope and future-making.
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He says the year proved students can grow through difficult Great Books and geopolitics work, and that this growth gives him hope that hard work can improve the world.
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He says he teaches high school in China because, as a father, he has to believe in, imagine, and fight for a better world as a legacy for his children.
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He models Christianity's early appeal as a free lottery ticket: belief costs nothing, but if the promise is true, the believer wins heaven.
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He argues that religion gives people hope when their social world gives them none.
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"...must be total darkness for the light to shine. And all hope must end so that we can become hope ourselves, okay? So please..."
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"...struggle of pain of tragedy but from that we can build hope and virtue and good okay all right so thank you so what..."
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"...worse and the answer is because children is what gives us hope children is what gives us purpose when you see that the world..."
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"...I love having children but also my children fill me with hope and energy and power to fight for a better world I am..."
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"...in this final class, I want this class to be about hope. And I want to show you the future. And the argument I..."
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"...So, in this final class, I want to show you some hope and some light. Okay? So, this is what we call energy. This..."
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"Okay? In the first semester, we read the great books. And I was blown away by how much you guys enjoyed the great books...."
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"You guys are asking great questions. Okay? So, thank you again. Because you don't have to work hard in this course. But you chose..."
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"...I teach this course is to bring you a message of hope. Okay? Like, through your own imagination, through your own hard work, you..."
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"Why is it so popular? So popular, in fact, that today, about 2 billion people... believe in it, okay? It's the most popular, most..."
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"...you understand? Okay?. All right? Because you're not giving people any hope, and religion gives people hope."
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"out and hope that there's a different leadership in place by 20, what would it be, 2030?"
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