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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-25, day precision Aliases: materialistics

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materialistic

A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.

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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope (2026-06-25, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope; Hell Begins When Hope Collapses Into Competition And Fraud; Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile.

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Timestamped Evidence

Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope

2026-06-25, day precision · Dante #10: Purgatory Cantos 5-14

Transcript

"...full on. You know. Like art, music, incense. All this very materialistic almost you know like down to earth things that really incites like..."

Dante Against Obedience

2026-06-17, day precision · Dante Livestream #3 (Wednesday, June 17 10AM)

Transcript

"So I think that, you know, when you have, like, materialistic goals, it kind of motivates you sometimes. So, for example, if there's, like,..."

The Exit Plan Is A School

2026-06-13, day precision · Live with Predictive History

Transcript

"...like our society, it's unique in that we are an extremely materialistic society that basically ignores anything that is not materialistic. And so we..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope

2026-06-25, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.

Dante Against Obedience

2026-06-17, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...

Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination

2026-06-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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.

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...

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