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Jiang says one of the day's two major themes is Dante's revolution against the Catholic Church and the other is the mystery of how he wrote the Divine Comedy.
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Jiang frames the lecture's central question as why Chinese society still gravitates toward America and what Putin can do about that dependence, then says the answer requires going back to the post-World War II order.
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Jiang defines gerontocracy as rule by old people and frames the lecture as a move from theories of Western decline to concrete trends and examples.
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"don't understand that okay so there are two major themes today the first major theme is Dante's Revolution against the Catholic Church okay what..."
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"So what I want to look at today is why is this the case? Why is it that the Chinese want to go to..."
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"So good afternoon class. Today we do death by gerontocracy. Gerontocracy just means rule by old people. Last class we discussed the decline of..."
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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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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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