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4 timestamped hits 3 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-06-24, day precision Aliases: worse-crimes

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Worse crime

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He's angry with Dante, right? He's never done that before. Okay. So what's he angry about? Why is he angry? All right. So the..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He's angry with Dante, right? He's never done that before. Okay. So what's he angry about? Why is he angry? All right. So the..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Purgatory Begins By Washing Virgil Off (2026-06-24, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Purgatory Begins By Washing Virgil Off; Modernity Needs A Scapegoat; Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History.

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Key Notes

Lecture reframing dated 2026-06-24.

definition

Jiang says the real answer to Sinon's defense is that there is something worse than counterfeiting coin: counterfeiting a gift or a poem.

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Relevant Lectures And Readings

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History

2024-12-31, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...

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