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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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download speed
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "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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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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"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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"...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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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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