Jiang uses the Star Wars father scene as an analogy for discovering oneself in the father one must symbolically overcome.
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A student answer Jiang entertains is that empathy begins in imaginative projection into another person's situation and then expresses itself by moving one beyond ordinary emotional stasis.
Dutch art projects internal religious anxiety onto paintings so the viewer can contemplate and relieve that anxiety visually.
Jiang says David feared Abner because Abner betrayed Saul and because David himself had betrayed Saul; David recognized in Abner the same ambition that brought him to power.
He says Biden could not have launched an Iran war without MAGA revolt, but Trump can because supporters reinterpret contradiction and war as part of a deeper plan.
He says Trump’s constant contradiction and unpredictability allow people to project fantasies onto him, including monarchic 5D-chess narratives about defeating the deep state.
Jiang says evil and Satan are not cosmic realities but concepts projected by human beings onto the universe.
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"...how I am him. And you use him as a final projection. You say, all right, I'm him, now I'm gonna, it's over."
"Yeah. Have you guys watched Star Wars? Right. You, I know you've watched Star Wars, but you remember the scene where, um, is it,..."
"I think imagination and emulation from evolution, I think. So it starts with imagining the position of another person or a situation and then..."
"Trade. With. China. Because. Of. China's. Human. Rights. Record. And. Bill. Clinton. During. NAFTA. And. He. Gets. Elected. And. He. Does. The. Complete. Opposite...."
"Okay. I'm. Wondering. Not. To. Harp. On. This. Forever. But. It's. Just. It's. Confusing. From. Your. Perspective. Growing. Up. In. You. Mostly. Grew. Up...."
"No. I. Actually. Grew. Up. In. Canada. Okay. So. So. I. Six. When. I. Went. Over. To. Canada. And. That's. Where. I. Grew. Up...."
"Yeah. I. Was. Just. Wondering. What. Your. Perspective. On. How. That. Works. Is. Because. To. Me. It's. So. Plainly. Obvious. The. Criticism. They. Have...."
"he prevents uh presents himself i think it's just the fact that uh he's so unpredictable the fact that like every single day he's..."
"to liberate america from the deep state who've been in power since the 1963 assassination of jfk he needs this war to um basically..."
"yeah near death experiences and this is when people um you know they die and they go then they go they go to heaven..."
"They do that through depictions of the, of life in the household, okay? And what will happen is this. At first, the Dutch Republic,..."
"So the Dutch see life as a constant struggle between your urges and your faith, between your emotions and reason, okay? And this picture,..."
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