Jiang names schools, media, and entertainment or mass culture as modern institutions that create collective identity by transmitting a worldview.
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Jiang names schools, media, and entertainment or mass culture as modern institutions that create collective identity by transmitting a worldview.
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Ordinary Greeks paid poets for entertainment, for education in public speech, and for edification.
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"Okay, so we will do a quick theater today. Now, as a society, every society has a problem. The problem is, how do we..."
"Entertainment, right? Mass culture. This includes, you know, TV shows. This includes movies, okay? This includes books. Does that make sense? So through these..."
"...them? Okay? Well, there are three reasons. The first is just entertainment. Today, we listen to songs, we go to movies."
"Well, back then, their entertainment, their source of entertainment, was to pay people like Homer to sing songs to them. Okay? That was what..."
"Edification means to be a better you, to be a higher you. Okay? And edification, the way that Homer, accomplished edification, is by changing..."
"We're going to have entertainment and sport and so on. You know, we're seeing a dramatic dialing down of investment in things like golf...."
"...and personnel movies and TV program producers must comply with Pentagon entertainment policy including script changes to align with military goals including recruitment and..."
"...what I do is I engage in speculation for fun, for entertainment, okay? So just see this as a fun class where we're gonna..."
"...go to a theater but the theater was more than just entertainment it was about education it was about enlightenment and a vacation okay..."
"...fight a war together and now they're best friends. Innovation, creativity, entertainment for nobility. Okay? Competition. War is often just, nobility just enjoys wars..."
"...the rape of the Sabine woman, and they use it as entertainment for the societies, okay? So this is really the beginning of secret..."
"...alphabet which increases literacy and learning throughout the greek world for entertainment what they did was they invited bards poets to come and give..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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