Topic brief

12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 9 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-05-22, day precision

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Next class

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It's a good thing. Yeah? But if that was a good thing, like what matters about human subjectivity if the AI fully controls you?..."

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Topic Scope And Freshness

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It's a good thing. Yeah? But if that was a good thing, like what matters about human subjectivity if the AI fully controls you?..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Dante's Revolution Against the Guide Who Obeys (2026-05-22, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Dante's Revolution Against the Guide Who Obeys; The Holy Empire of AI; World War Trump and the Fortress Empire.

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Key Notes

Lecture scheduling note on 2026-05-19 pointing to Thursday, 2026-05-21.

prediction

Jiang closes by saying Putin is coming to Beijing that night and that Thursday's class will discuss Putin, which dates the lecture's forward-looking next step to the immediate week of 2026-05-19.

Forward pointer made on 2026-03-17.

other

Jiang says the next class will discuss this civil conflict or civil war.

Prediction made on 2026-03-10.

prediction

Jiang closes by predicting that the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be destroyed at some point, with fuller analysis promised for the next class.

closing transition in this lecture

other

The new world order is framed as the culmination of Freemason symbolism and a topic to be developed in the next class.

Lecture claim as of 2025-11-27.

chronology

The next lecture will explain how the Catholic Church was created, continuing the argument that church Christianity diverges from Jesus himself.

Course preview at the end of the 2025-10-29 lecture.

other

The next lecture will move from agricultural civilization to steppe peoples, since many major conquerors came from the steppes.

Course-sequence preview on 2024-11-12.

other

Jiang previews the next lecture as the world Caesar created after his death: the Republic falls and the Roman Empire is born.

Course-sequence pointer at the end of the 2024-09-10 lecture

other

The next lecture will explain the Yamnaya origin story and why they were successful in conquering Old Europe.

Timestamped Evidence

Farming Won Because It Carried Religion

2024-08-29, day precision · Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture

Transcript

"Okay? So next class, we'll look at Ice Cave Paintings. That goes back 40,000 years. Meaning that they practiced this sort of religion, or..."

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The Nearest War Wins

2026-03-19, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.

The Parasite Feeds on Reality

2026-03-17, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...

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