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Milton's epic poem, treated by Jiang as a foundational secret-society text that encodes hidden cosmology.
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Paradise Lost
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Jiang notes a symmetry with Milton: in Paradise Lost the devils end as snakes, reinforcing the serpent as an image of corrupted desire and theft.
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Jiang links this sympathetic Satan plotline to Paradise Lost, where the rebel's self-justifying story helps seduce readers as well as characters.
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A student says Miltonic Satan becomes persuasive by steelmanning every objection until sympathy turns into empathy and a worldview shift.
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Jiang says Milton's Paradise Lost turns Satan into a celebrated rebel, but Dante's Inferno does not glorify Lucifer at all.
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Jiang says Paradise Lost encodes secret-society truth and that proper poetic analysis can reveal what members embedded in literature.
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Milton is presented as a blind prophetic free thinker and Paradise Lost as the foundational text of many secret societies.
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The plot of Paradise Lost is introduced as Milton's reimagining of the fall, with Satan turning from defeated rebel to the one who volunteers to go to Eden.
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Satan's first speech is interpreted as heroic leadership: because he reigns, he alone must accept the greatest hazard and seek deliverance for all.
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"exactly you're exactly right yes um um and in fact milton will use this metamorphosis for paradise laws because in paradise laws uh the..."
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"...but God betrayed me. And this becomes a plot line for Paradise Lost. But yeah, no. We have to sympathize with Satan because it's..."
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"I'd read Paradise Lost before I read Inferno. And so I was expecting, it's like a paradigm shift or the Germans would call it..."
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"Yes. That's right. So not only do we have to sympathize with him, we have to be like, feel that we are like him...."
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"question right because he does mention that there is one angel who defied god who turned away from god and as a result he..."
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"that is only taught in secret societies the other thing about social societies that's really important is they believe that most of us cannot..."
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"...we will study today the greatest poem in English language called Paradise Lost by John Milton who was who actually was a member of..."
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"...does that make sense all right all right so we're doing Paradise Lost all right this is um the National epic of the British..."
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"...passionate advocate of free speech. He was a man who wrote Paradise Lost. And he wrote it when he was blind. He could not..."
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"...is we will read two speeches by Satan. The plot of Paradise Lost is really, really simple. It's trying to reimagine the fall of..."
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"But Satan is the devil. determined to seek vengeance against God. And so what he wants to do is go to the Garden of..."
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"Our prison strong, this huge context of fire, outrageous to devour. Immerse us round ninefold, and gates of burning adamant barred over us prohibit..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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