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10 timestamped hits 5 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-13, day precision Aliases: joyces

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Joyce

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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...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Exit Plan Is A School (2026-06-13, day precision).

Most connected source readings: The Exit Plan Is A School; Final Examination: Collapse, Imagination, and the Soul's Purpose; History As River, Prophecy As Plan.

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Key Notes

Lecture comparison of literary models.

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Jiang contrasts Joyce with Dante: Dante uses poetry to bring people into the mind of God, while Joyce makes readers spend years entering Joyce's own mind.

Timestamped Evidence

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He was an..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...just Google the best book ever written in human history, James Joyce is the greatest book ever written in human history. James Joyce is..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. Okay. James Joyce was good friends with Virginia Woolf. In fact, Virginia Woolf actually published..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"And in it, she's also trying to respond to Joyce. To the Lighthouse, it's very much based on Homer's Odyssey. And it's extremely well..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Exit Plan Is A School

2026-06-13, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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...

History As River, Prophecy As Plan

2026-04-09, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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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