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The shared civic imagination produced by public forms such as Roman triumphs, Greek theater, and Viking funerals.
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collective consciousness
The shared civic imagination produced by public forms such as Roman triumphs, Greek theater, and Viking funerals.
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Jiang's Durkheimian term for religion as collective thought, the shared imagined order that lets society come into being.
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Great art changes society by entering collective consciousness and rewiring how people see and behave.
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Roman triumphs, Viking funerals, and Greek theater are parallel communal forms, but they generate different kinds of collective consciousness: sacrifice and domination for Rome, funeral memory for Vikings, and perspective-changing empathy for Greeks.
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Religion and society are mutually constitutive: without religion there is no society, and without society there is no religion.
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"...important idea where you have to understand that civilization has a collective consciousness. And what great art does is it seeps into this collective..."
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"rewires the brain to make the civilization see the world in a new way, which causes people to behave differently, OK? So we discussed..."
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"...Greeks on the other hand had theater to build the community's collective consciousness. Theater. So there were no professional actors. It was community members..."
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"Again this must come from a certain mythology. Okay? That's the only way we can explain this practice. this ship aflame after which other..."
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"The theater was it's very different. They didn't practice any human sacrifice. They didn't parade slaves around. What they did was often was write..."
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"...had to be created. Collective thought. Okay? So religion is our collective consciousness. It's what allows society to come into being. If collective thought..."
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"...becoming into reality. It's growing, okay? It's almost like the Internet, collective consciousness. And as a result, the Geist has to reason and to..."
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"...had a lot to do with this. Because before on the collective consciousness right? The world as it is. The community. But with the..."
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"...That is the first idea. The second idea is that when collective consciousness, authority, breaks down, these mythologies begin to drive history so when..."
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"...is the operating system of the culture. Okay? It is the collective consciousness, the collective worldview that gives life to their culture. It explains..."
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"...And because you are with other people you must have a collective consciousness or an idea you share together and we call this thing..."
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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