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Odysseus builds persuasive force by moving Achilles through vivid contrasts and time: feast versus desert, present Hector, past Peleus, and future victory, riches, marriage, and Greek glory.
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Future
Poetry activates imagination and defeats the self-made prison of ordinary perception, allowing higher sight beyond time and space into the eternal, past, and future.
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Poetry activates imagination and defeats the self-made prison of ordinary perception, allowing higher sight beyond time and space into the eternal, past, and future.
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Poets are prophets because the future speaks to the present through them; divine speech is not confined to chronological time because God is past, future, and present.
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Jiang says a coherent character-world lets readers look backward to understand how events came into being and look forward to make predictions about future behavior.
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Jiang defines predictive history as true history only if it connects past events into a coherent story, explains the present, and predicts the future.
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Jiang predicts that if he were betting on the future, the world most likely becomes a theocracy because the alternatives have failed or are intolerable.
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Jiang frames the final class as a movement from the semester's bleak world analysis toward hope and future-making.
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He says the future is what people imagine, fight for, and make happen, not something passively endured.
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"Okay? So how does he do that? What he does is he expands the imagination of Achilles. Alright? That's why the speech is so..."
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"...glory for the Greeks. Okay? Then he takes Achilles to the future. Which is, let's imagine what happens when we win this war. When..."
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"...things beyond just time and space. The eternal, the past, the future. And wherever it spreads its own figure curtain or withdraws life's dark..."
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"...which futurely cast upon the present. They are prophets because the future is speaking to us today, okay? God is past, future, present. And..."
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"...the past, and we're also able to make predictions about the future. And all this is coherent. Okay? So based on this, we will..."
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"...I call it predictive history. The idea is that in the future, I hope that history is able to accomplish three major goals. The..."
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"...a theocracy. And so if I'm a betting man, what our future looks like, I think it is most likely the world becomes a..."
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"Okay, this is really important. People in North Korea, even though they're poorer, even though they have less freedom, they are on average happier..."
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"...to be about hope. And I want to show you the future. And the argument I want to leave you with, the thing that..."
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"...what we call psychohistory. And psychohistory is the idea that the future can be predicted. And if it can be predicted, then it can..."
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"...that's the message I want to give to you today. The future is what we imagine, not what we have to put up with...."
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"And maybe at some point, we can share this dream of psychohistory. You know? I know it sounds very complicated. It's very abstract. But..."
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