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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That's the fantasy nursed by Macbeth. And I want to suggest it's also a fantasy common to all ambition. Ambition in that sense, in..."
Bromwich uses the term to name Macbeth's own vision after ambition hollows life out, not Shakespeare's authorial doctrine. A human possibility Shakespeare can depict vividly, including its Machiavellian variant, without making it the playwright's own settled doctrine.
He insists that the 'tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow' speech is Macbeth's nihilistic evasion after the costs of ambition, not Shakespeare speaking his deepest wisdom directly.
Bromwich says Shakespeare knows nihilism, including Machiavellian nihilism, but portrays it as one recurrent human possibility rather than endorsing it as his own final wisdom.
Zombie civilization means a society without soul, spirituality, heart, or purpose, while imagining itself to be civilization's peak.
Jiang says social media functions like a drug and a nihilistic indoctrination platform whose effect is to convince users that nothing matters and thereby keep young people docile.
"That's the fantasy nursed by Macbeth. And I want to suggest it's also a fantasy common to all ambition. Ambition in that sense, in..."
"She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time when she would have died. She should have died hereafter. There would have..."
"...among other things but let's call this speech nihilistic but the nihilism belongs to macbeth"
"...tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech uh shakespeare is acquainted with nihilism uh and with the machiavellian version of nihilism in the character of..."
"Well, you can make an argument that both the modern SSRI industry, as well as the internet, are outgrowths of MKUltra. And MKUltra were,..."
"in the future or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise or there will be a great rebirth..."
"It is without soul. It is without spirituality. It is without heart. It's all machine. It's all money. It's all obsession. Nothing else, okay?..."
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.
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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