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Not primarily overt coercion but the capture of attention, imagination, and belief so that a false reality becomes the only reality.
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slavery
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Jiang says there are no slaves in the Divine Comedy because, in Dante's logic, slavery happens when someone gives up freedom in order to protect life.
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For Jiang's Dante, free will is God's gift, so surrendering it for survival is logically equivalent to choosing not to live anymore.
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He pushes the model so far that even forced slavery is reframed as a field of choice: Dante would still say one could run away or rebel rather than inwardly consent.
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Jiang says that even someone born a slave still retains a decisive choice, because they can run away or rebel rather than inwardly consent to slavery.
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Jiang calls contented slavery sinful because it shows a lack of faith and a failure to understand that human beings are here to live the best life possible, inspire others, and co-create the universe.
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Jiang says Dante would not give an absolute rule about modern jobs or servitude; the right action depends on a person's concrete situation and intuition.
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Jiang says that if someone does not understand themselves as a slave, then their condition may be morally acceptable, but if they do experience it as slavery they should leave.
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Jiang explains slavery through an ancient conquest model: the victor offers the defeated a choice between death and slavery, and choosing slavery means forfeiting humanity and free will.
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"...worst things you can do is like rape murder but then slavery and there was a lot of people today that would say like..."
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"and then slaves were involved because even in dante's time slavery is less and we're moving into feudalism but it's not gone and it's..."
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"a economic reality yeah you make a great point about slaves in the divine comedy there are no slaves okay and there's a very..."
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"you are born a slave you can choose to run away if you're born a slave you can choose to rebel i i know..."
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"die exactly yes but then are we saying it's inherently sinful to stay as a slave because you'll have no free will but what..."
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"somewhat content with how you are is that sinful um yeah i mean what this is again is a lack of faith right it's..."
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"also taken um no that's not what donnie would say donnie would say trust your intuition if your intuition is i should just quit..."
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"yeah that's what i mean so if the slave is a slave but their intuition says it's fine i'm looked after"
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"then it's fine yeah if you think you're being a slave then you should quit your job okay uh yes"
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"yeah that's right yes exactly okay uh yes um obviously i'm not an expert on slaves or history but from like the limited knowledge..."
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"...getting this information from okay so let's think think about how slavery happens okay in ancient times we had slaves because um i would..."
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"do you understand okay that's where slavery comes from so slavery is people who choose to become become slaves rather than to die uh..."
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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.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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