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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
Jiang says China is not intent on a military conquest of Taiwan and instead wants Taiwan to recognize the supremacy of the Chinese state by withdrawing from international bodies such as the WHO and IOC.
"...Chinese state. That means that Taiwan needs to withdraw from the WHO. It needs to withdraw from the IOC. I mean, that's all China..."
"...literature major at Yale, and so I met some journalist friends who introduced me to Gay Talese. In the summer of 99, he came..."
"...you to reorientate your worldview. It forces you to better understand who you are. You're placing the world, and your understanding of the world...."
"...he was married to a beautiful book editor named Nan Talese, who will go on to have a spectacular publishing career. And when you're..."
"...And the logic is this. You start off with a being who creates another being in order to complete itself. And this leads to..."
"...to get married, you're not supposed to sleep with other people who is not your wife or your husband. If you do so, you..."
"...fundamental need to return to God. Okay? They remind us of who we are. And that's why Thy Neighbor's Wife is still such a..."
"...Webber is really not a person. Diane Webber is a model who poses nude on beaches. And Harold Rubin will masturbate to the nude..."
"...Sex for humans is not about pleasure. It's fundamentally about discovering who you are. And creating a reunion between yourself and another person so..."
"...your fear, what happens is the only thing that remains is who you really are, which is the divine spark. Okay? Divine spark. That's..."
"...them. Representing the fact that he's learned the courage to accept who he is. He's learned the power to see social conventions, social taboos..."
"Okay? So these are voyeurs. These are people who secretly spy on people being nude. Why are they secretly spying? Because they are afraid...."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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