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The placement of Brutus and Cassius beside Judas creates a paradox because it would imply Julius Caesar is divine, yet Caesar remains in limbo.
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Caesar
The revolutionary promise takes different ideological names but repeats the same game-theory offer: follow the elite faction and receive debt cancellation, land, and freedom from slavery.
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Key Notes
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Cato's guardianship of purgatory is paradoxical because he was pre-Christian, committed suicide, and opposed Caesar, yet is above limbo and above hell.
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Virgil praises Cato's suicide as death for freedom, even though suicide is a sin in Catholic teaching.
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The revolutionary promise takes different ideological names but repeats the same game-theory offer: follow the elite faction and receive debt cancellation, land, and freedom from slavery.
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Sulla answers reform pressure by killing reformers; Caesar survives and builds a career on popular discontent.
diagnosis
Jiang doubts the official Alesia story and treats Caesar’s Gallic campaign as slave capture, private enrichment, army-building, and myth production.
model
Great politicians build myths because people often believe what they want and do not care about the difference between reality and fantasy.
definition
Caesar can be wealthy and still populares because money and status are different; civil war comes when elites without status cannot access power.
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"Okay, so when they meet this, the thing that they discover is that this is mechanical. He's a machine. He doesn't have ideas, he..."
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"And Brutus and Cassius are the ones who betrayed Julius Caesar. Okay? So if you just accept the logic, you would think, okay. Well,..."
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"...Who is Cato? Cato, along with Brutus and Cassius, opposed Julius Caesar. At this time, Julius Caesar was amassing power for himself in Rome...."
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"Why is he in purgatory? The third thing is he betrayed Caesar. Okay? Or opposed Caesar. Cassius and Brutus also betrayed and opposed Caesar...."
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"Now may it please you to approve his coming. He goes in search of liberty, so precious and as he who gives his life..."
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"Found death for freedom was not bitter when you left a garb that will be bright on the great day."
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"...rather die honorably than to submit himself as a slave to Caesar. So what Virgil is saying is like, you died a noble death...."
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"Their children's children become slaves as well. Okay? Because of interest rates, it's impossible for you to pay back that debt. Okay? So now..."
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"...side. Okay? And you look at the Roman Civil War, Julius Caesar was saying the same thing. Right? Why was he so popular? Because..."
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"No one's using this stuff. Give it to the people to work to generate more wealth for our society. We have more tax revenue...."
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"...he retired. One of these reformers who got away was Julius Caesar. Okay? So, Julius Caesar, because his family was very wealthy, was able..."
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"...what's happened is that this is the very last battle of Caesar's Gallic campaign. What he's done is he's surrounded a village where his..."
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