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Dante's noble birth made him a participant in northern Italian factional conflict, and his life experience of rivalry and hatred shaped the political background of The Divine Comedy.
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Exile
Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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He allows for a small minority of nonconforming people who may naturally leave because communities historically punished or killed people with strange or different ideas.
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He says social players fear ostracism or exile from the group, so they try to beat others while also avoiding behavior that gets them thrown out of the game.
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Ezra's prayer frames exile, return, and divine demand as the problem of what God wants after Babylon.
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Ezra explains Babylonian exile as punishment for refusing to obey and worship Yahweh and for worshiping false gods.
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Jiang says the concept of an individual independent of family, community, and world is a recent invention; exile was formerly worse than death because belonging was selfhood.
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The individual, understood as a person independent of family and community, did not exist in Jiang's account of earlier societies.
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"...that he'll get sick of this constant fighting, and he will exile himself to focus on his poetry. The other"
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"He spends all his life in exile. He becomes patronized by some very powerful aristocrats throughout Italy, and he will spend a lot of..."
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"But over time, what happens is that the elite, okay, become hereditary. The game becomes how do I, the elite, pass on my privileges..."
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"...that continues where the losers of the game are forced into exile until there's no more place to colonize, okay? And now you have..."
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"Okay. That's a great question. And I'm sure everyone's familiar with this question, which is like, what can we do about this situation? Well,..."
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"And they're not going to be able to conform to the community. Okay? And historically, these people have been killed by the communities. And..."
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"That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to..."
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"Australization. Okay? Or basically just exile. Where you are no longer part of the group. They kick you out as a player. Okay? That's..."
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"Oh, my God, I'm too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our inequities have risen higher than our..."
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"So, this is a speech by Ezra, okay? He returns to Jerusalem, and now he has to reflect on what God wants, okay? So,..."
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"And our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. From the days of our ancestors to this day, we have been deep in guilt...."
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"So, why did the Israelites get exiled to Babylon? Because they refused to obey and worship Yahweh. Yahweh sent prophets. Yahweh warned them, but..."
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