Jiang's phrase for the Iliad's forced switch into the enemy victim's perspective, which destroys prejudice and opens empathy.
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big bang of civilization
Jiang's phrase for the Iliad's forced switch into the enemy victim's perspective, which destroys prejudice and opens empathy.
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"...emotional impact on that, okay? What this is is the big bang of civilization because when you read this, okay, when you're forced to..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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