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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "see lady macbeth as a a bad person who's becoming something worse than that but she begins only as a rather conventional person who..."
Bromwich reads the witches naturalistically: Shakespeare represents a society in which witch belief is real to the characters, and Macbeth's special danger is that he is especially ready to internalize and obey prediction.
He compares the witches' prediction to modern statistical or medical forecasting in order to show that superstition is one version of a broader human habit: obedience to ideas about the future can license reckless action.
Jiang predicts that readers who stay with the Divine Comedy over time will begin to feel a similar ascent, as though lifting themselves toward heaven and participating in transcendence.
Students speculate that Hollywood blockbusters can also function as soft fortune telling by repeatedly presenting predictive futures.
Jiang predicts that any part of the world that makes Dante central to education will flourish more than places that do not.
A student challenges Jiang's flourishing prediction by pointing out that Italy already teaches Dante widely but does not obviously demonstrate the promised result.
Jiang predicts that Dante will keep the official definition of faith on the surface while introducing subtle revisions to its meaning.
Jiang treats the identity of the actors in a story as the key prerequisite for anticipating how the story will develop.
"see lady macbeth as a a bad person who's becoming something worse than that but she begins only as a rather conventional person who..."
"...believe it in the same way he is listening to the predictions that they make in company with banquo and um banquo says something..."
"...the witches in that regard as something like um a statistical prediction of you know what the likelihood is of me uh living another..."
"I feel like I can't go outside, because if I go outside, a scooter might bump into me, and I'll get angry and all..."
"And again, but the ultimate sensation, and I'm not sure if you guys ever had this, is you feel really light. You feel as..."
"i think hollywood always make a lot of films and all of the blockbusters just try to keep telling you some kind of the..."
"okay that that that gives you a possible um explanation right not the not that they're like trying to convince you this is what's..."
"is teach dante to the entire world and we'll see which parts of the world accept dante and i guarantee you the parts of..."
"any any country any any region that adopts dante as part of the core curriculum would flourish and i would just like to point..."
"way that we can have assurance about what we do not see um yeah right but it goes on right so so so yeah..."
"So, that makes sense. But we can also imagine that George Soros is behind it. Because if you look at who's speaking out about..."
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.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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...
This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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