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Poker-derived phrase Jiang uses for elites who have already pushed too much into the war to back out rationally.
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pot committed
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang's poker analogy for a state that has invested so much in a war that withdrawal becomes politically impossible.
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"That, I don't think the European elite can stomach. They've basically pot committed. They've pushed all in in this war in Ukraine. And I..."
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"...reason is, if you send in ground troops, then you are pot -committed. In poker, there's the term pot -committed, right? You're all -in,..."
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"...connection to the vine because he's been inspired by artwork he's committed to change and because he's cleansing himself more and more sins the..."
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"...you to christianity doesn't make sense okay but the poet has committed evil and sin by trapping the holy fire and so the poet..."
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"...the very idea of doing. Lady Macbeth says, soon after they've committed their murder, what's done is done. But she'll say much later, on..."
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"...about anyone else. Macbeth continues the self -deception that a deed committed right here, right now, can stop right here, right now. He knows..."
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"committed to god they see don is like this is actually more interesting than god okay i keep"
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"...God has perfect justice. You are punished for the crime you committed. If your loved ones are praying for you, why should that matter?..."
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"...me here, but only briefly. The offense of envy was not committed often by their gaze. I fear much more the punishment below. My..."
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"I think for female homosexuals, and lesbians, they are more committed to one on one relationship. But if it's like male homosexuals, then it's..."
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"Okay, so these sinners are here because they committed identity theft, they're imposters, they pretend to be someone else, okay? It's like credit card..."
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"...did promise yourself to a life of god but you also committed treachery you also lied to the people inside the city drew them..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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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...
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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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