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A technological metaphor for increased capacity to absorb, analyze, and create realities after reading the Iliad or Great Books.
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A technological metaphor for increased capacity to absorb, analyze, and create realities after reading the Iliad or Great Books.
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Reading the Iliad opens the mind by strengthening the mind's connection to the universe, like increasing download speed on an internet connection.
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"...right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though your download speed is now increasing. You have a fast connection, strong connection now..."
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"alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into..."
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"...when I was freed. But if a lady come from heaven, speeds and helps you— Wait, stop."
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"...they're the best in the world. And these skyscrapers, these high -speed railways, these airports demonstrate the superiority of Chinese culture. And Chinese, so..."
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"...But we will also be clear -eyed and realistic about the speed, scale, and quality of China's historic military buildup. Our goal in doing..."
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"...should spend more money on infrastructure. I should build more high speed railways. I should build airports. Okay. And that's what China did. You..."
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"...you now? Madman, can't you hear the west wind ruffling to speed you on? That woman spawns her plots, mulling over some desperate outrage..."
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"...things that will force the coming of the Messiah. So let's speed things up, Netanyahu. Okay? So, what this is, I'll explain later on,..."
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"...model. But then, Lenin, okay, came and said, no, you can speed up the revolution, okay?"
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"...is it's a universe onto itself. And therefore, you can actually speed up the process of wisdom and enlightenment because by reading the Iliad,..."
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"Why are all these high -speed railways? Because China, to save the global economy, decided to invest in infrastructure, okay? Okay, and Belt and..."
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"...also makes Napoleon unique at this time is the idea of speed. This all happens very quickly. Very, very fast. At this time in..."
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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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