Jiang argues that church involvement in temporal politics leads to wars, censorship, and the destruction of creativity in Europe, and he frames the Divine Comedy as Dante's answer to that historical condition.
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Wars
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Key Notes
Jiang rejects the standard teleological story of history progressing toward a greater good because current wars and political breakdown contradict it.
Jiang predicts China and the United States will probably come to a grand bargain in April, but the empire will still collapse and wars will continue.
Jiang says a world of nearly eight billion people is unsustainable under depleted food and water systems, because scarcity-driven migration will cascade into wars, civil wars, revolutions, and broader social disorder.
Jiang says the mechanism is a perfect storm of crises including possible polar shift, mini ice age, destructive winter weather in North America, epidemics, wars, and revolutions.
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"...Empire, okay? This is happening for centuries. This is leading to wars throughout Europe. It's also leading to massive oppression, massive censorship, the destruction..."
"...model doesn't work. Because how would you explain, um, all these wars that are raging around the world? How would you explain what's happening..."
"...meaning that the empire will still collapse. And you'll still have wars raging over around the world."
"...become depleted then then like there's massive migration massive migration causes wars okay so um yeah i mean like like i'm sorry to say..."
"...States and in North America. You'll have epidemics raging. You'll have wars raging. You'll have revolutions. So for the next 20 years, it's like..."
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