A student insight Jiang endorses is that Virgil's mention of shadows in hell quietly dismisses the fuss over Dante's shadow, showing he is still irritated by Dante even while basking in praise.
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Resentment
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Another student says the person sees herself as wronged by the world and therefore feels no duty to apologize.
Achilles wants the Greeks to lose badly enough that they beg him to return, so his pursuit of heroic glory is already morally contaminated by resentment.
Jiang says China never developed deep resentment toward America and has long tried to generate anti-American feeling only instrumentally because economics push the two powers together.
Jiang argues that because Trump was trained by powerful patrons he both depends on and resents, he has learned their mentality well enough to play rival elites against each other.
Jiang explains student disruption online as a response to an offline power dynamic in which teachers control everything and students grow resentful.
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"well there are more yes he also mentioned that in hell they're full of shadows so this is him saying that the fact that..."
"yes i didn't see that but that's exactly correct yes it's like why you guys like brat like like focus on his shadow there's..."
"I think she feels she's wrong in the first place. So why does she have to apologize? She was wronged by the world."
"bad i'm king and so achilles says fine but i will never fight for you ever again i'm gonna let the trojans destroy you..."
"the battlefield so he leads the trojans against the greeks and they're destroying the greeks they're at the point where sorry at the point..."
"...hard for Americans to understand, but like China never really had resentment against America like China has been trying to create this repulsion with..."
"empire by being basically a slumlord okay he was taking advantage of government subsidies he was abusing exploiting his tenants but he was able..."
"age has been mentored by these very powerful individuals and so yeah he got to where where he is because of these powerful individuals..."
"So the word, the word for petabond is the same for eunuchs, and the words for methyl molecule sounds exactly the same as phallus,..."
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