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Jiang makes the test explicit: what matters is whether communication preserves people's ability to think for themselves rather than force-feeding them a fixed emotional conclusion.
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Influence
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When asked whether Dante grounds a great-man view of history, Jiang refuses a direct answer and instead says Dante is a root of the Renaissance whose later influence spreads through a much more complicated process.
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Jiang claims Jewish Kabbalah is basically inspired by the Divine Comedy, presenting the poem as a major source for esoteric and magical inquiry.
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Jiang compares this elite-favor system to what Jeffrey Epstein was doing, treating both as influence operations built on favors and access.
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Jiang says Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are among the most influential American media figures not simply because of scale, but because their audiences deeply believe them and they anticipate trends before others do.
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Jiang says he is now a player rather than only an observer, which constrains his prediction accuracy and objectivity.
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A student asks how a private imagined world can make others follow if it is not communicated or enacted.
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In response to the student, Jiang says myth-making is a natural human process for justifying hierarchy, so similar myths may arise with or without direct influence.
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"whatever the content that you put out if that is is it a net positive or net negative on on on on the imagination..."
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"fortune teller right yes i think people are um people that are bad are those who trying to come trying to convince you into..."
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"idea of humans drive history be the root of this uh great man great people idea of history instead of collective history"
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"um that's a hard question for me to answer dante is the root of the renaissance he will give rise to the renaissance and..."
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"Each and every one of you would have a radically different interpretation of the Divine Comedy because some of you may learn Italian and..."
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"Okay? This is something that we might discuss later on, but the Jewish Kabbalah is basically inspired by the Divine Comedy. It's something that..."
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"...is what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. Right? That's how you exert influence around the world. You do favors for these powerful officials who then..."
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"Listen, I think that Kenneth Owens and Tucker Carlson are two of the most influential people in America right now. I think it's very..."
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"...think are declining are people like joe rogan uh they're declining influence i think nick fuentes is declining in um in influence as well..."
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"And that's a path to wisdom. You have to experience many different things. You have to fail. You have to suffer in order to..."
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"...I'm a player. Okay. And I also get a lot of influence from other people who want to control my predictions. I understand that...."
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"...have a lot of self -power. I have a lot of influence overseas. And so they want to co -opt me. They want to..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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.
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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