He defines the Kabbalistic schema as requiring moral acceleration through sin and repentance, arguing this underwrites why doing evil may be treated as a path to eventual redemption.
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Morality
Tragedy converts sorrow and pity into wisdom, reflection, empathy, and morality, making Greek drama a moral technology.
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Key Notes
The Rousseau passage read aloud claims that renouncing liberty is incompatible with human nature and destroys morality, rights, duties, and reciprocal obligation.
Jiang says societies avoid easy money from gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, or money laundering because immorality destroys energy, openness, cohesion, and the soul.
Tragedy converts sorrow and pity into wisdom, reflection, empathy, and morality, making Greek drama a moral technology.
Jiang says British utility-first philosophy aligns with Frankist materialism by rejecting biblical and first-principle moral limits.
Jiang says justification by sin proves faith by breaking the laws of conventional man rather than obeying social morality.
As regions consolidate, separate hero stories consolidate too; bureaucratic priests then add moral messages so stories control the people and discipline the king.
Jiang contrasts an older moral order, where every life was treated as a gift from God and society protected the vulnerable, with a present order ruled by cost and revenue calculations.
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"This is the fractal that underpins the Tree of Life, which underpins the entire universe. Okay. You can see how you have these fractals..."
"The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's..."
"And then the Israelis will beg for forgiveness. And that is what will cause a reunion between the Jewish people and God. Okay. And..."
"...To remove all freedom from his will is to remove all morality from his actions. Finally, an agreement to have absolute authority on one..."
"...do it? Because it's immoral, okay? As a society, you need morality in order to create energy, openness, and cohesion, right? People want to..."
"...They're disgusting. There's actually no culture to the place. There's no morality to the place. It's actually disgusting. Okay? I don't want to live..."
"...in okay and let's create wisdom let's create empathy let's create morality and that's why Greek drama is so important okay now let's look..."
"And let's just talk of it goes against the will of God, it's against the Bible. It's just nonsense. We should just focus on..."
"...man by bringing the conventional man because he's conventional man this morality is law"
"that keep you back okay what matters is your relationship with God you have true faith you can do whatever you want you can..."
"...a bureaucracy. So, bureaucratic priests come into power they add in morality and messaging to control the people and the king. Okay? The major..."
"Okay? And then over time what happens is that these stories become consolidated combined together to form a new story okay? Harvard's most legendary..."
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