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He says earlier societies at least required elites to honor family publicly, whereas current openness can coincide with a deeper indifference to society's long-term health.
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Hypocrisy
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "okay so society right so so so so this is what don is saying here um i said he's rising society's focus on expanding..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "okay so society right so so so so this is what don is saying here um i said he's rising society's focus on expanding..."
Key Notes
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The hypocrites are punished by heavy lead cloaks whose glittering exterior and crushing interior mirror the split between appearance and reality.
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Jiang treats Caiaphas's punishment as fitting because the figure who advocated sacrificing one man for the nation is now literally stretched under everyone's feet.
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The student's starting definition of hypocrisy is that it means saying one thing and doing another while presenting a false image of moral superiority.
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Jiang synthesizes hypocrisy as speech detached from responsibility: words that can be changed at will because the speaker is using them instrumentally rather than truthfully.
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The social motive for hypocrisy is to please authority, appear superior, and gain benefits without doing the inner work the words claim.
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Jiang accepts the student's formulation that lies must eventually be worn on the self, which is why the cloak of lead externalizes the burden that hypocrisy once hid.
diagnosis
Jiang implies that even a hypocritical Church teaching that money is evil is preferable to a naked money-order that openly tells the poor they are nothing and deserve damnation.
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"okay so society right so so so so this is what don is saying here um i said he's rising society's focus on expanding..."
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"society just becomes the anchor it just goes into free fall okay and um yes i mean i don't want to say homosexuality is..."
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"you think denting will agree with that or do you think it's the same thing as homosexuality right"
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"58. Below that point we found a painted people who moved about the lagging steps, encircled, weeping, with features tired and defeated. And they..."
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"you upon whose cheeks I see such tears distilled by grief and let me know what punishment it is that glitters so. And one..."
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"Naked he has been stretched across the path as you can see and he must feel the weight of anyone who passes over him...."
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"...these cloaks of lead. So let's think about this. What is hypocrisy? And why would you be punished walking all of eternity with cloaks..."
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"It is basically saying one thing and doing another. So you're pretending to be better than you are. So you put off this mask."
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"To show that you're better than others, that you are airy and kind of like, I'm better than everybody else. I'm more religious."
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"Okay. So what you're saying is that hypocrites, their words have no meaning and their words can change at any time. And they are..."
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"Yes? I think that they're cheating. They just pretend to be higher moral stuff. Just try to, on the one hand, you get a..."
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"Okay. Well, let's say you're a teacher, okay? And you're telling your students, okay, we need to work hard and read a lot of..."
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