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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "To return to God. Do you understand? It's like, I give you my finger, okay? And like, my finger is like, I would rather..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "To return to God. Do you understand? It's like, I give you my finger, okay? And like, my finger is like, I would rather..."
Jiang says the desire to return to God is a fundamental logic of the universe and the hidden motive behind everything humans do, even when they do not know how to fulfill it.
Jiang identifies revenge as a major plot device across these plays because revenge is what motivates human beings to violence.
"To return to God. Do you understand? It's like, I give you my finger, okay? And like, my finger is like, I would rather..."
"...revenge, OK? And the reason why is if you think about human motivation, what really drives us, right? What really drives us to violence?..."
"...and spiritual nuances and elements in looking at human societies and human motivations. I think you briefly described this as psychohistory on the introduction..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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