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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...perception. It's almost like God, the Creator, is putting up a play for all us humans to watch. The Matrix, you know, whatever it..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...perception. It's almost like God, the Creator, is putting up a play for all us humans to watch. The Matrix, you know, whatever it..."
Another student drifts toward a Matrix-like or psychedelic-perception frame in which creation is a staged experience meant to affect consciousness, not straightforward reality.
A student speculates that creation may function like a staged perceptual drama meant to open consciousness, but Jiang declines that level of complication.
Mythology functions as a play requiring actors; revolutionary leaders gain followers by volunteering to play the role the collective subconscious demands.
"...perception. It's almost like God, the Creator, is putting up a play for all us humans to watch. The Matrix, you know, whatever it..."
"Okay. Okay. Right. I don't think Dante is that complicated. Let's focus on simple solutions, okay? Okay? So again, like, Occam's razor. We are..."
"...it. Okay? The third argument is that mythology is essentially a play. Okay? A mythology is a play. It's a story. And, this play..."
"...that make sense? But, they're following him because he's willing to play the role that's required of him in this play that's being acted..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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