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Canto 20 casts greed as an ancient wolf whose endless hunger devours the world and prompts a plea for a coming force that will drive it away.
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When the student asks what happens to readers who only inherit Virgil's closed underworld, Jiang says Dante had to write the Divine Comedy in order to give hope to the world.
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Another student argues that widespread cultural mixing can create world unity by placing every culture inside every country.
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Jiang predicts that any part of the world that makes Dante central to education will flourish more than places that do not.
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Jiang says our world is only a subset of the entire universe, so the authority of logic is local rather than universal.
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Jiang endorses the creator model of poetry: only God and the poet deserve the name creator because the poet creates the heart and the world through imagination.
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Jiang endorses the formula that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world by saying their words create reality.
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The meritocracy seeks traumatized people and, because elite schools are powerful, traumatizes the world in order to find and produce them.
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"...melt down drop by drop, the evil that possesses all the world were too close to the edge on the far side. May you..."
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"maybe well one thing also that springs to my mind is like how well people who only read for example the in yet only..."
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"...dante had to write divine comedy to give hope to the world and this is something we will discuss actually as we go as..."
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"I think it helps with unity in the world because, like, if every culture is represented in every country, then it, it creates unity..."
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"is teach dante to the entire world and we'll see which parts of the world accept dante and i guarantee you the parts of..."
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"...order to control the way you behave and think in our world, okay? But our world is just a subset of the entire universe...."
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"...creator of our heart. The poet is the creator of our world because the poet has the imagination to see things beyond time and..."
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"...moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, okay? Poets are prophets and their words create our reality."
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"...meanders everywhere and it's supposed to be like this open -ended world like it's almost like world of warcraft mmos where it's open -ended..."
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"...from the month ago look look i i'm look look at world war ii okay how much of world war ii that we've been..."
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"greatest thing for the world and for the American people for the American Empire to come to"
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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