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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know it's the same idea it's the same sense of like self -indulgence and what matters is my own pleasure my own happiness and..."
Jiang says Dante would make no distinction between homosexuality and LGBT variants here because the underlying issue is self-indulgence without concern for social impact.
Jiang explicitly revises his earlier explanation and says the problem in Dante is not self-indulgence but factionalism; a degree of self-love and ego is necessary for creating great art.
Jiang says the real issue is an attitude of self-indulgence: be yourself, love yourself, do not worry about others, and do not assume responsibility for society.
Jiang distinguishes acceptable self-love from self-indulgent same-sex desire, which he says Dante treats as bad because it collapses into indulgence.
Students add extreme wealth inequality, self-indulgence, inability to express opinions, and rising bureaucratic power as signs of decline, and Jiang endorses them.
"...know it's the same idea it's the same sense of like self -indulgence and what matters is my own pleasure my own happiness and..."
"...uh uh like go back to the question of about like self -indulgence um but like there also can be a like those narcissists..."
"...so yesterday i i i did say the problem homosexuality is self -indulgence and i recognize that is incorrect okay that's why i went..."
"So, so, so, so, so I want to change your question. Okay. Okay. Okay. Imagine you're at Yale. Okay. You're a freshman at Yale...."
"Because it's not the act itself. It's the attitude. Like be yourself. Indulge yourself. Love yourself. Don't worry about other people. Don't worry about..."
"so that, so that's what Donnie is trying to do. He is trying to tell us that self -love is a good thing, but..."
"...like extreme wealth inequality yes exactly great extreme wealth equality yes self indulgence self indulgence yes um not being able to express uh one's..."
"increased bureaucracy a power like bureaucrats having a lot of power"
"...to Inferno 16, right? I don't know if it's homosexuality or self -indulgence of self -centeredness, but the idea of, you know, cases where..."
"...And openness, right? Homosexuality, it's the expression of self -love. And self -indulgence. It's the expression of excess and arrogance. Right? We are so..."
"...a brain can see through the hypocrisy, the travesty, and the self -indulgence in his speech. It's not really a grand strategy. It's more..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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