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Jiang distinguishes self-directed sins from sins against others and treats violence, fraud, and treachery as escalating because they damage other souls.
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Violence
Jiang distinguishes self-directed sins from sins against others and treats violence, fraud, and treachery as escalating because they damage other souls.
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Jiang says Dante wrote The Divine Comedy to address how humans can escape cycles of vengeance, hatred, and war.
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True love, in Jiang's answer, cannot use a beloved person's memory as an excuse for hatred, violence, or evil.
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In this Roman lesson, trusting the enemy is foolish because benevolence toward the Greek captive permits the horse to enter Troy and opens the city to slaughter.
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Jiang calls the Aeneid's violence almost pornographic and says Romans loved it because, in his characterization, they are bloodthirsty.
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Jiang glosses the attack on Deiphobus' house as an attempt to kill the king, emphasizing the violence hidden behind the heroic song.
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Jiang describes Proto-Indo-European or Yamnaya displacement of European farmers as violent population replacement, including killing farmer men and taking women as captive brides.
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In Jiang's reading of the Iliad's honor world, losing respect can mean getting killed, so Agamemnon's face-saving display of superiority is not merely vanity but survival logic.
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"...get to the sin that impacts others okay so here it's violence then you go to fraud then the very worst is treachery okay..."
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"And that's why he wrote The Divine Comedy. Two major biographic details that you need to understand about him is that he is of..."
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"...do not turn the memory of that person into hatred and violence. You celebrate the person's life by being open and generous with others...."
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"If you do something evil, it means you actually don't want to love that person. Okay? Does that make sense to you? If you..."
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"Okay, so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent,..."
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"And his first thought is, where is my king? How do I save my king? Okay so as the Greeks are ravaging the city..."
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"...poetry, in fact, you can say it's almost pornographic in the violence that it depicts, all right, and the Romans just love this, because..."
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"And he sang how troops of Achaeans broke from cover, streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy. He sang how left..."
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"Defebus isn't a name for pride, okay? They want to go kill the king. You want to go in?"
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"a war that lasts 100 years, 20 years, in which the nomadic pastoralists, the Amnaya, or the Porto Indo -Europeans, they displaced, or they..."
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"Okay? The first and most important thing is that he's responding to Achilles. Okay? Achilles says, you have to give the girl back. And..."
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"In order to save face, I must now demand something from Achilles to show that I am his superior. Okay? He's so conscious of..."
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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.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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