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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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WAR
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A student asks whether the lament should be read as Dante's call for Italians to stop fighting and unite toward peace and understanding.
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Jiang says the platform's primary mission is not detached Dante scholarship but sharing Dante with the world because, in an age of war, hopelessness, and conflict, resummoning Dante through imagination can give humanity hope.
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Jiang explicitly dates the lecture's political horizon by describing the present as a world of war in which Donald Trump is president.
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Jiang predicts Japan and South Korea will eventually go to war and that such a war will reverse birth trends by making children a patriotic obligation.
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He argues pension and medical protections are preserved for the dominant older cohort because the political system serves their interests, even to the point of sending young men to war to maintain that status order.
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Jiang predicts that war will bring rapid population decline and then create much greater social mobility.
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Jiang answers that peace with Iran is no longer possible.
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"really at the core of the story is like the fact of like how many reigns are in the middle ages and how many..."
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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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"...is a time when Italy was embroiled in turmoil and in war, so could this be Dante's call for his age to stop fighting..."
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"...I think that in this time and age, when there is war, when there is hopelessness, when there is conflict, I believe that resummoning..."
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"...the path forward is okay we live in a world of war we live in a world where donald trump is president you know..."
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"...But, the situation will change. South Korea, Japan will go to war. When that happens, then it becomes your patriotic duty to have children."
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"...hate each other. Okay? So, if they're going to go to war, they're going to fight to the bitter end. The Japanese and South..."
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"...will always be protected. That's why they send young men to war because they want to maintain their status. So what can young people..."
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"I mean, the reality is that when war starts, you're going to have this rapid population decline, right? When that happens, you're going to..."
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"So it's a great irony. Katana asked, will Trump come to peace with Iran?"
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"Peace is no longer possible. Um, peace is not possible. Okay? Alright, so guys, I am just exhausted right now. I know there are..."
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"...know that financial crisis crashes gonna happen they they know that war is gonna break out so why not accelerate advance and and then..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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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