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Spanish silver wealth quickly creates the same pathology Jiang has been tracking: wealth makes a society lazy, insular, arrogant, and dependent on others' labor.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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He says Spain and Portugal colonized South America by exploiting mineral wealth, enslaving local populations, and converting them to Catholicism.
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Jiang says the Sidonia passage claims Spanish converts outwardly became Catholic while secretly remaining Jewish.
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The 1492 Spanish expulsion is presented as a traumatic rupture that creates bitter division between converts and non-converts.
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Jiang differentiates Yamnaya conquest outcomes by local circumstance: genocide in Britain, male-line replacement in Spain, and caste hierarchy rather than full genocide in India.
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Spain's New World gold and silver became a national disaster because it reinforced a feudal Catholic monarchy rather than productive institutions.
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Jiang treats Spain's clergy and nobility as parasitic elites who absorbed wealth while making no productive contribution.
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Spain's New World territories are framed as economic extraction rather than colonization, with the navy built to carry gold and silver back to Spain.
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"...the expulsion. So, 1492 is when the Jews were expelled from Spain. And this was a traumatic event for Jews, because if there's one..."
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"Do we forgive them? Do we punish them? What do we do? Okay."
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"...And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And so overnight, Spain became extremely wealthy. But as we discussed last..."
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"To provide textiles, luxury goods to Spain, all right? So how this was accomplished was first, industry. So the Spanish, because they were so..."
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"So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
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"So Sidonia is a Jewish state that, in the course of ages, had given to the state many distinguished citizens. In the priesthood, its..."
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"So even after the Christians reconquered Spain, and after some Jews converted to Catholicism, okay, first of all, these Jews kept their faith secret...."
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"Yet, strange as it may sound, it is nevertheless a fact, of which there is no lack of evidence, that these Jews were Christians...."
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"...the Jews, Christians, and the Israelites get along very well in Spain. Okay? But in 1492 the Spanish will expel the Jews from Spain...."
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"And they steal your woman. Okay? That's what young men do, guys. All right. And over time, what they will do is slowly establish..."
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"...chose, the men and women chose to fight together. Okay? In Spain, it's a different story. Because what happened is that all the men..."
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"Okay? And we know because if you look at the upper caste, they all spoke Indo -European. If you look at the lower caste..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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