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Jiang says the class's entire Hollywood script for Satan is wrong and that the shock of the Divine Comedy lies in the fact that the expected temptation scenario does not occur.
Jiang states a reversal of greatness: the greater a person is, the more they suffer from hubris, which can only lead to tragedy.
Jiang says Freud then allies with the Frankists and radically changes how he interprets patients.
The standard civilizational story has the categories reversed: Jiang claims the steppe peoples were open, curious, and innovative, while mature civilizations became closed, static, and unhappy.
Jiang argues Protestant capitalism reverses older morality: historically excess wealth meant selfishness, but now excess wealth means divine favor.
The assassination proves the opposite of the conspirators' fear: Caesar could be killed only because he did not surround himself like a would-be king.
Using Harari's formulation, Jiang says humans thought they domesticated wheat, but wheat in effect domesticated humans by making them do the labor of its survival.
Jiang argues that once the U.S.-led force appears ready to strike Tehran, the war has already been won by Iran because the invasion has violated basic traditional military doctrine.
"Yes. Okay. Okay. So this is all great. Okay. And like, this is what a Hollywood movie would look like. This is what most..."
"...voting campaign, we have seen, we have remarked some signs of reversal of this situation. And we believe that. We believed in American voters,..."
"they are conceived the good affections are strengthened by pity indignation terror and sorrow and the exact calm is prolonged from the satiety of..."
"You know what? That's a good question, okay? And the answer is, if you are an upper class woman, you're much more likely to..."
"Okay, so today we are going to discuss civilization versus the steps, okay? Civilization versus the steps. The steps are the grasslands, and people..."
"Only can you be, only if you are civilized, can you be truly be happy, okay? And wealthy. And we think that the steps..."
"Why is it that they keep on losing out the steps people? And the answer is because your traditional understanding is completely wrong, okay?..."
"They had access to all this surplus wealth that Protestants weren't spending. On the other hand, it had the psychological effect of freeing the..."
"impulse of acquisition in that it not only legalized it, but looked upon it as directly willed by God, okay? So before, it was..."
"Okay? He could become king, but he chose to not become king because to become king would mean the death of the Republic. And..."
"Right? Otherwise, Caesar would surround himself with party guards. Otherwise, Caesar would not make himself available to his enemies. So, upon the death of..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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.
The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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