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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang expects immigrants and unemployed young men could be recruited, but says elites lack the credibility and authority to send them into a pointless war without provoking rebellion.
"...that problem in the short term. So I think, like, these immigrants will be recruited to join the military, as well as young unemployed..."
"...him with the most utmost respect okay nowadays you're like oh immigrants let's kill immigrants no no no immigration for most of human history..."
"Goddamn immigrants! Again, this is not a political correct class, okay? Why is immigration bad? Why is immigration bad?"
"So, materialism? Money. Do you understand? If you have immigrants come in, everyone shares different values, the only value that you have to create,..."
"...societies decline, and so you have, Don is saying, you have immigrants, you have homosexuality, you have factionalism, you have economic pressure, okay? And..."
"...more creativity, right? And also, like, if you don't let an immigrant, society is going to decline even further, even faster. Yes? Anyone else..."
"In more developed economies, immigrant workers are often a cheaper source of labor."
"...um all my life i've been in exile i was an immigrant to toronto where i grew up then i went to yale um..."
"...if for us who never have the experience to move to immigrants or like uh being siloed from group it's much more harder for..."
"...sucks, when the people are angry, they always churn against the immigrants. Always. And who, what sort of immigrants do you think the immigrants..."
"...know, you know the culture, but, you know, if you're an immigrant like myself in Canada, you don't belong. I mean, there's no way..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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