The student's reconciliation attempt says the material world can only be seen materially, while spiritual blessedness follows a different scale of greatness.
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Key Notes
Jiang says poetry joins the material and the spiritual, the here and the forever, and the present and the eternal by turning that conjunction into words.
Jiang says his geopolitical method deliberately reads problems from multiple angles, including both material and spiritual dimensions.
Jiang rejects a simple one-way hierarchy between matter and spirit and instead describes their relationship as dialectical and difficult to disentangle.
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"...like these these lines seem to like discuss the matter of material and spiritual um existence so to me i think it seems to..."
"but like our eyes see things farther away as like greater and bigger okay all right okay"
"...turn it into words that are able to express both the material and the spiritual. The here and the forever, the present and the..."
"...to look at the problem from like many different angles the material angle is certainly an important factor i'm also trying to figure out..."
"...is that um the eschatology does align with the geopolitics the material does in fact align with with the spiritual um and so and..."
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