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The student's marriage-and-hiking analogy translates Jiang's distinction into ordinary life: retirement comfort without pursuit resembles Limbo, while strenuous purposive striving resembles Purgatory.
Jiang argues Trump does not intend to retire and now sees remaining in power as existential because leaving office would invite retaliation from a future Democratic administration.
"...no you should work it's kind of the same as a retirement community versus working arduously to climb a mountain because my husband is..."
"So, why is he doing all this? And he is energetic. Remember, in theory, he's retiring in three years, but does he look like..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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