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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-25, day precision Aliases: peaks

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Peak

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 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; Purgatory Begins By Washing Virgil Off; Question Peter, Leave Beatrice, Defeat Virgil.

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Key Notes

historical-economic diagnosis stated on 2025-10-18

diagnosis

Jiang says China peaked around 2008, expanded too quickly, and is now burdened by debt that it must painfully work through.

Timestamped Evidence

History Never Became Secular

2025-10-18, day precision · How to Predict the Future-The Pokepreet Podcast ft. Professor Jiang Xueqin

Transcript

"Um, what I mean is that China peaked in about 2008. Um, and when I mean pick in me, I meant that expanded too..."

Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope

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

Transcript

"...no, no. Come on. What's he seeing right now? Literally. The peak. Literally. What's he seeing right now? What's he saying? Literally. He sees..."

Macbeth's Deed And Dante's Hope

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

Transcript

"...of the powers of humans, how briefly green endures upon the peak, unless an age of dullness follows it. In painting Simabue, Chimabue thought..."

Dante Against Obedience

2026-06-17, day precision · Dante Livestream #3 (Wednesday, June 17 10AM)

Transcript

"...down from the hill the blessed ubaldo chose from a high peak there hangs a fertile slope from there perugia feels both heat and..."

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.

Dante Against Obedience

2026-06-17, day precision · alias-match

Reading

The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...

Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination

2026-06-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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.

The Population Becomes The Weapon

2026-04-28, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...

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