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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 3 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-06-18, day precision Aliases: rat

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Rats

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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Topic Scope And Freshness

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,...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile (2026-06-18, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Faith Makes Truth Real And Hope Risks Exile; Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination; Grand Strategy Or Pawnhood.

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Key Notes

Animal-behavior model as Jiang presents it in this lecture.

model

Normal rat mating is presented as a structured ritual of male display, female interest, chasing, waiting, repeated play, mating, and family formation.

Animal-human contrast in the 2024-10-15 lecture.

model

Jiang distinguishes humans from rats by saying humans can reason and adapt to new circumstances, while rats depend on fixed rules and cannot adapt when those rules break.

Historical evidence claim in this lecture.

evidence

Jiang identifies the plague as bubonic plague spread by rats, known through DNA evidence, and says it had long been present across the connected world.

Timestamped Evidence

Grand Strategy Or Pawnhood

2026-04-09, day precision · Exclusive Interview with Professor Jiang by Dr James Cheong 江学勤独家专访 详细分析美国 伊朗 日本 全世界

Transcript

"...read Ch inese history there are lots of really famous st rat age ms Right So you look at S an Guo - Y..."

Grand Strategy Or Pawnhood

2026-04-09, day precision · Exclusive Interview with Professor Jiang by Dr James Cheong 江学勤独家专访 详细分析美国 伊朗 日本 全世界

Transcript

"leaves And this is a very very famous st rat agem from Chinese history And there are lots of these st rat age ms..."

China Without The Good Monorail

2026-01-16, day precision · The Derp With Kurp | 23 | @predictivehistory - The Multiverse of Madness

Transcript

"...a motorcycle problem. Oh, yeah, that's right. Because scooters are like rats. They're like everywhere. So if you're just walking in a park, suddenly..."

China Without The Good Monorail

2026-01-16, day precision · The Derp With Kurp | 23 | @predictivehistory - The Multiverse of Madness

Transcript

"...to eat authentically in China, you need to eat pig's brain, rats, locusts, you know... Look at your cheese, Nikolai."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Why Paradise Needs Human Imagination

2026-06-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

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.

The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History

2025-10-31, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.

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