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Repetition

Jiang says poetry recreates perception by making people feel what they perceive and imagine what they know, renewing a universe blunted by repetition.

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2026-01-21 lecture interpretation of poetry and perception

model

Jiang says poetry recreates perception by making people feel what they perceive and imagine what they know, renewing a universe blunted by repetition.

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method

Jiang says repeated content from the prior civilization series is intentional because he is reanalyzing history from the angle of secret societies and building a different overarching thesis.

Conditional future claim stated on 2024-06-13.

prediction

He argues that if psychohistory works, it would change the fate of humanity forever by helping humanity stop repeating the same historical mistakes.

Timestamped Evidence

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future)

Transcript

"one thing that you notice in this class, it's like we tend to repeat the same mistakes. Right? The question is like, why do..."

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination

Transcript

"...for example, energy is a very important concept, life force, cycle, repetition. Well, then you have to use symbols in order to express these..."

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The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization

2026-01-21, day precision · claims

Reading

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Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield

2025-11-06, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...

The Future Is What You Make Happen

2024-06-13, day precision · claims

Reading

The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...

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