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He presents the Franciscans as a poverty movement founded by Francis of Assisi in continuity with Jesus and the poor, and he says both the Dominican and Franciscan reforms initially seemed to restore hope to a corrupt Church before later failing.
Jiang interprets the two 'princes' as Saint Francis and Saint Dominic, raised up so the Church's mission can continue despite corruption and decay.
Jiang says it is too strong to say Dante despises the Catholic Church; his position is that the Church should be reformed rather than abolished.
Jiang argues that the only effective solution is for the parent to punish themselves, because that visible suffering convinces the child that she is loved and thereby reforms her desire.
Sulla answers reform pressure by killing reformers; Caesar survives and builds a career on popular discontent.
The best structural solution would be to destroy the Ivy League or make it public so its private institutional power and secrecy are broken.
Alexander II's emancipation and constitutional tendency created modernizing gains while provoking noble backlash and revolutionary violence.
Communism partially won by forcing capitalist ruling elites to adopt reforms such as universal education, right to work, and abolition of child factory labor.
"...worldly affairs. And these two movements seemed the answer. They were reform movements."
"They were reform movements. They were movements that seemed to bring hope to Europe. But ultimately, both fail, okay? So what Dante wants to..."
"no guys it's a catholic church right the bride of god yeah yeah okay that's a heretic all right the bride of god is..."
"words of jesus or something um so i think despise is a heart is is harsh okay yeah he he he's critical of the..."
"So that's the logic, okay? All right? So because you're kind of screwed, okay? If you don't do anything, what's Eve going to do..."
"she's convinced by the love of the parent, and therefore, she's now fully committed to loving her parents to the best of the ability,..."
"...are a consistent source of opposition towards any sort of curriculum reform here in China. The second are parents. And the reason why is..."
"So Japan, Japanese people and Chinese people, they share genetic origins. They're basically the same race. Japan was settled by Chinese who migrated over..."
"But even after World War II, when their industry was being dominated by these state -owned enterprises called Zabatsu, sorry, I don't know the..."
"...sort of conflict within Rome. The first is Marius who promised reform, but really didn't deliver. Then you have Sulla."
"...inequality, the problem is you've got too many people who propose reform. So, he just killed all the reformers. Okay? And then after he..."
"...elite becomes arrogant, become complacent, and they are completely resistant to reform. In fact, if you propose any reform, they will kill you. And..."
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...
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.
Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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