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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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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.
Venice, the Dutch Republic, England, and America are presented as four stages of transnational capital because each is a merchant oligarchy controlled by private interests.
Venice becomes powerful precisely because it lacks resources and must use trade, piracy, diplomacy, and imperial parasitism to survive.
"...distinct stages. Let's look at them. These four distinct stages are Venice, Dutch Republic, England, and what's the last one, guys? Come on. America...."
"...questions? All right, so let's go over the PPT, okay? So Venice, what makes Venice special is after Rome collapses, the Roman Empire collapses,..."
"All right, so this is Venice today. And as you can see, it would be very hard to invade. Also, remember, at this time,..."
"And this is going to make Venice very, very wealthy. So the two big cities are Genoa and Venice, okay? And as you can..."
"...then the other side, you find Portia in The Merchant of Venice, the, you know, very wise lawyer and then also Ophelia, who's Ophelia,..."
"...it all just a coincidence right why Florence and why not Venice why not Genoa right why Florence specifically it doesn't make sense guys..."
"...good reasons okay but my question is why florence and not venice virgin noah or any other of these italian city -states right what..."
"...to Rome and the 13 families, which then became part of Venice. Okay, so there are many different permutations to this conspiracy theory about..."
"...in Florence. But there are also some major city -states like Venice and Genoa. Okay? And they're all competing against each other. They're also..."
"...the northern Italian city -states, which include Florence, Milan, Genoa, and Venice, they have two major political factions. This is Wikipedia, by the way...."
"...back to the 13 families of Rome. This goes back to Venice. This goes back to the Knights Templars. This is all nonsense. This..."
"You look, look, look, look, sorry, sorry, but Nick Venice clearly has a political agenda. The guy's a smart guy, but some of his..."
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 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...
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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