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7 timestamped hits 5 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-25, day precision Aliases: olympic

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Olympics

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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Topic Scope And Freshness

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; Iran As Chokepoint, Canada As Toxic Asset.

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Key Notes

Illustrative diagnosis on 2025-08-05 using an early-2000s story.

model

Jiang uses a Beijing Olympics construction parable to argue that China's skyscraper boom is driven by corruption: inflated projects let officials steal while the public sees only development, not the debt.

Timestamped Evidence

The End Times Become A Strategic Plan

2025-08-05, day precision · Predictive History and the End of the World | Prof. Jiang

Transcript

"two billion dollars because we use the best materials we have the best technology but then the third company is a local beijing company..."

Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope

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

Transcript

"...saw these images, he's also a computer programmer. He got the Olympics into computer programming. But he said that it is what that moves..."

Iran As Chokepoint, Canada As Toxic Asset

2026-01-22, day precision · Trump's War on Iran / Davos / Canada-China Relations w/ Prof. Jiang Xueqin of Predictive History

Transcript

"...what I mean by that is... Think of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Where the government spent billions and billions of dollars on creating this..."

The Bank That Made The Game

2026-01-22, day precision · Game Theory #6: The World's Bank

Transcript

"...think of... It's a zero -sum game. So think of an Olympic game where, okay, everyone's going and competing in the 100 -meter sprint...."

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.

The End Times Become A Strategic Plan

2025-08-05, day precision · claims, semantic-ref, alias-match

Reading

Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...

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