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A reality that exists through shared participation, like Jiang's classroom analogy for Malimo ritual.
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Collective reality
A reality that exists through shared participation, like Jiang's classroom analogy for Malimo ritual.
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Speech making becomes the basis of ritualized public action: to get something done, one stands before people, makes a speech, and creates a reality they can accept.
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Language controls time and space by allowing people with private perceptions to arrive at a collective understanding of reality.
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Jiang's classroom analogy says a collective ritual exists only when everyone participates in it; a sleeper denies the collective experience is real.
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"...in front of people and make a speech and create a reality for people to accept. All right? And this is what leads to..."
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"...okay, we're now able to come to a collective understanding of reality. Right? And who creates language? Poets create language. And therefore, poets, through..."
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"that I want to kill that person why would I want to do that what's my logic it's disrespectful of what okay it's disrespectful..."
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"...to recognize that the religion is real it's more real than reality okay but if you're sleeping you're saying no guys this doesn't matter..."
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"...to tell stories about these shadows. And this becomes, really, our collective reality, okay?"
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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