He predicts a gerontocratic world will respond to viruses with lockdowns because old people prioritize safety from germs.
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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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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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Jiang argues that Christianity plants an anti-violence idea into the collective subconscious like a virus until people recognize violence as bad.
Jiang says once Frank's idea takes hold it spreads like a virus, because Frankists can convert outwardly into other religions and then infiltrate those institutions from within.
Jiang argues that Frank's stories operate like viruses or memory cells: once read, they embed themselves in consciousness and continue directing behavior from within.
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"...imagine how once this idea takes hold it spreads like a virus it's able to conquer two societies right and that's what happens these..."
"...and once they're embedded in these faiths they will spread this virus it affects everyone it really conquers the world i wanted to read..."
"responsibility to help that person succeed no matter what the cost is remember the four brothers if four brothers stick together they can conquer..."
"...means that the world will go into lockdown. Whenever there's a virus, guess what? We're all going to have to shut down. Because old..."
"...the subconscious that grows and grows. Okay? It's almost like a virus until people recognize that violence is bad. Proto -Enduro -European mythology celebrates..."
"...ideas these words these songs these melodies it's almost like a virus that grows over time right so the transformation doesn't happen like today..."
"and say there's a virus going around and people are going to like, you know, stay at home. So that's something that's trying to..."
"...to want to cheat others as well there's almost like a virus right so those who are in hell are because they're spreading a..."
"...because the epidemiologists in Sweden said that you can't stop a virus. It's impossible. So what, so we're not going to disrupt the economy...."
"Look, let's look at COVID, okay? So COVID, you have this virus going around. It was mutating very, very fast. And, um, then they,..."
"...you have a vaccine, the vaccine is, a fortification against the virus. But if the virus is shifting, what the virus will do is..."
"...do not mutate that fast. It makes no sense for a virus to mutate that fast because a virus is trying to survive by..."
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