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Jiang's description of Achilles' counter-speech, which refuses Odysseus' outward-expanding reality and turns toward self-absorbed 'I' and 'me' claims.
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contracting inward
Jiang's description of Achilles' counter-speech, which refuses Odysseus' outward-expanding reality and turns toward self-absorbed 'I' and 'me' claims.
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"...expanding outwards, like Odysseus wants, Achilles continues to expand, to contract inwards. Right? He uses the word I, I, I a lot. Right? Me,..."
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"...just Taiwan and so forth. It's practically everywhere. And also it's inward because, you know, this attack on farmers, the, the LGBT nonsense, the,..."
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"...city, all of, all of this is the same war turned inward at the same times as it's, as it's turned outward. And so..."
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"...which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward insight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of..."
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"...in others. Okay? And the idea of self -assessment, right? Looking inward. Well, if you're a poor child who lives under a lot of..."
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"...know, like so self -control, resilience, and the ability to look inward and better understand what you're good at. Okay? So it takes a..."
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"...all this is, as Buchanan tells us, it's all self -directed inwards, which gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself. It's..."
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"...a result, it's expensive. It's either expensive outwards, or it's expensive inwards. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So let's look at..."
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"...remembering. All right? But again, it's extremely self -indulgent. And it's inward looking. And it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional..."
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"...remembering. All right. But again, it's extremely self -indulgent and it's inward looking and it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional..."
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