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Betrayal of chosen friends or guests is worse than betrayal of family because chosen bonds depend on free will and trust.
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Family
For Jiang, betrayal ultimately makes the betrayer betray everyone, including family, and produces eternal self-hatred.
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For Jiang, betrayal ultimately makes the betrayer betray everyone, including family, and produces eternal self-hatred.
normative
Individuals cannot survive coming scarcity alone; Jiang recommends education, friendship, generosity, community, and family.
normative
Individuals survive the new world through family and community rather than individual preparation, money, or bunkers.
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Economic rupture will force people away from Gulfstream fantasies and foreign vacations toward introspection, family, community, and meaning.
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Roman priority orders family as patriarch first, inheriting son second, and wife as follower; Jiang contrasts this with the relative equality of Penelope and Odysseus.
diagnosis
Jiang says the Odyssey is fundamentally a homecoming story in which Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus must rediscover love after twenty years of separation.
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The love of Penelope and Telemachus is what lets Odysseus regain identity and fight for justice again, making him almost superhuman against the suitors.
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"...the first type of treachery betrayal is when you betray your family and for dante this is actually the least problematic of all betrayals..."
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"And that makes you hate yourself so much that you burn with self -hatred for all of eternity. You are now the most imprisoned..."
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"So he's just left to suffer. As they starve, as they're starving, it is implied that Count Eulogio, you know, he eats his own..."
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"...Also, one thing that I would recommend is maybe starting a family."
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"And the reason, and you're like, okay, wait a minute here. This is silly because you have said for the longest time, the world..."
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"...about is, are my kids happy and healthy? So, children and family give you a energy, a purpose, a meaning that drives you to..."
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"...right? All right, how does an individual survive for what's coming? Family and community, guys, okay? Forget the fact that you are an individual...."
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"...materialism, of individualism. And they start to embrace more spirituality, community, family. Because quite honestly, you don't have a choice in the matter, okay?..."
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"...have a chance to focus more on introspection, on reflection, on family, on asking yourself, what makes me happy? What gives me meaning and..."
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"...Aeneas goes home. And what he does is he takes his family and takes them to the ship to escape Troy. But as they..."
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"The most important person in the family is the patriarch, the father. Then is the son who inherits. And the wife is just someone..."
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"...Odyssey is really about a homecoming. About three members of a family, Odysseus, Penelope, and Timarchus, who after 20 years separation must come together..."
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