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The ability to understand another person through secret language rather than possession or obsession.
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intimacy
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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For Jiang, love is not obsession or possession but intimacy: understanding another person through private language, cold words, and shared secrets.
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The old tradition matters because it combines the immersive force of a movie with the intimacy of a deep conversation.
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Multiple sexual partners are presented as a way to build intimacy, mutual obligation, and child protection in small communities.
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"...the soul, okay? In other words, what love ultimately is is intimacy. How do you know if you love someone? You love someone not..."
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"So in other words, you're able to communicate and understand each other in an intimate language with cold words and secrets. You understand secrets,..."
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"But what you will find when you do that is the picture doesn't really capture the experience for you. You cannot the picture cannot..."
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"You combine it with the intimacy of a conversation. Just think of like having this like four or five hour conversation with your best..."
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"Any questions so far? I know this is controversial, but I'm just trying to show you how our cultural beliefs is radically different from..."
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"If you're a small community, okay, maybe 15, 20 people, it makes sense to make sure that everyone loves each other and everyone will..."
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"And the way you build intimacy and community is by sleeping with each other's wife. So you became one big family. Okay? Does it..."
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"...It's meant to develop for us and help us understand the intimacy between Dante and Virgil, right? And the example is, let's just say..."
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"...originally interested him. The moment they were rash enough to approach intimacy and appeal to the simplicity of the world, he saw them no..."
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"...is completely dependent on the man. Okay, and also that physical intimacy, all right? So it sounds really depressing, but this is a very..."
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"...history, love and sex were not the same thing. Love is intimacy. Sex is just fun. Okay? In some societies, women would have many..."
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"...these men will have sex and the reason why is create intimacy and bonding among them and there'll be a lot of religious rituals..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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