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Technology that enables mass literacy, Bible access, and Protestant self-education.
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printing press
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.
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The Protestant Reformation won despite Catholic Europe's greater population and wealth because printing press, musket, and banknotes empowered literate believers, common soldiers, and abstract wealth.
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The printing press allowed mass Bible reading and self-education, making Protestants more literate and educated as a religious requirement.
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Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
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The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers.
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Jiang explains revolutions such as 1848 through converging pressures rather than single causes, including climate shocks, economic collapse, state-finance breakdown, new communication media, and new industrial classes.
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"time, if you go back in human history, 1848, the French Revolutions, there was no way at that time that people could have predicted..."
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"...you also had an uncontrolled new medium of communication in the printing press. There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating it."
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"There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating it. And you also had new industrial productions. You had a new economy. You..."
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"And the individual struggle to come to terms with what God means to you individually, okay? And the Vikings believed in resourcefulness, right? Which..."
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"...to the invention of three things. The first thing is the printing press, which allowed for mass literacy and education. Now everyone could read..."
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"And it's very expensive to be a knight. But now, eventually, you have the gun, the musket. Okay? And it takes about 60 days..."
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"to trade goods. Not only... You can use bank notes, which is just money. Okay? And you can now monetize your hard work and..."
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"Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the..."
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"It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. But, as the Ottoman Turks start..."
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"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
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"Why this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win..."
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"...1440, around then, a man named Gutenberg, he will invent the printing press. And the printing press allows for the rapid dissemination of literacy..."
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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 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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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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...
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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