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Jiang's compressed claim that even seemingly minor actions alter the universe and therefore give Dante's writing real weight.
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you matter
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Glossary
Jiang's condensed message that free will and chosen goodness affect the whole interconnected universe.
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Jiang says every person matters because cause and effect connect every act to the universe; choosing goodness and refusing power/fame bargains protects free will and creates impact.
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"The first thing he recognizes is that you matter. Your actions matter. Regardless of who you are, you do matter, okay? But Carta, I..."
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"Two words, you matter. Okay? Don't think, oh, you know what? There's 8 billion people in the world. I'm just one person. so don't..."
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"uh that people don't really appreciate is that your free will well and it was like you know oh professor jiang mr jiang you..."
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"...as my free will to speak up because i choose to matter um i am having okay so everyone does matter but you have..."
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"...your brain. Use your imagination. Visualize things. Hope is arrogance. Believe you matter. Believe you can change the world and visualize a better world...."
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"...that things were set in motion but here Dante is your you matter you're an active agent um imagine and do and you're part..."
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"...money. What wealth is, is our attention, our consciences. Two words, you matter. But you have to choose to matter. You have to believe..."
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"The BRICS doesn't matter. I've never thought about BRICS. I've never researched BRICS. If someone talks about BRICS, I clue out. I think about..."
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"...this risk okay because at the end of the day what matters is my own individual pursuit of the truth what others think of..."
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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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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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