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Jiang distinguishes the present world, where money often determines status and power, from medieval Europe, where the dominant teaching was that money is the root of all evil and salvation matters more than wealth.
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Medieval Europe
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He argues that for most people in medieval Europe wealth was not the supreme object of desire, even though elite politics and Church corruption were still shaped by money.
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Jiang ties this anti-intuition framework to medieval Europe and argues it helped produce the Dark Ages by suppressing innovation, wealth, and intellectual creativity.
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"Yeah. Maybe because the, you know, people who just live in ancient time, they sometimes believe in God, believe they are stoicism, maybe. But,..."
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"...Money moves around the world. This is not true, actually, in medieval Europe, okay? Medieval Europe, yes, there's hypocrisy where the Catholic Church is..."
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"I'm interested about the charitable concept of all of this. Like, I know this is not the modern age. In the modern age, you..."
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"Yeah. So, charity is one of the chief Christian virtues, right? So, we say faith, love, and hope, but back then, it was faith,..."
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"...trust our own intuition, okay? And this becomes a framework for medieval Europe, which lasts about a thousand years. And this is what led..."
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"...America, you have the Mayans. Okay? And in Europe, you have medieval Europe. You guys can't appreciate this. But in the year 1300, medieval..."
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"...okay and this is the situation that Dante is facing in medieval Europe in the year 1300 to 1321. okay any questions before we..."
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"...people to obey them and that's what's limited the imagination of medieval Europe okay so we'll discuss this more this morning but um but..."
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"...theocracy the last example is a catholic europe this is a medieval europe when the catholic church was in charge all right but with..."
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"...ignorance without their virtues okay so the Catholic Church was problematic medieval Europe was problematic now if you're a poor person you're a complete..."
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"...but it'll also include the Turks and the Mongolians, okay? In medieval Europe, they developed a new system where the knight becomes the main..."
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"...still go visit it, okay? It is beautiful. The cathedrals of medieval Europe are really the pyramids, like the pyramids. They are meant to..."
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