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Jiang reads Dante's shadowed forest as a middle-aged spiritual crisis in which hatred of the world becomes self-hatred and loss of connection with God.
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Hatred
Hatred of another person separates the hater from the Monad and becomes self-hatred.
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Jiang speculates that Dido feels realistic because she is based on someone Virgil knew and perhaps loved, making his condemnation of her a guilty act of hatred.
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Hatred of another person separates the hater from the Monad and becomes self-hatred.
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Roman society weaponizes hatred, guilt, contempt, and self-disgust by redirecting the energy toward enemies.
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Augustus commissions Virgil to rewrite Homer so Roman culture places hate, not love, at the center of the universe.
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Roman schooling uses the Aeneid to create hatred of Greeks as the basis of Roman identity.
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Modern dismissal of gods as mere symbols also dismisses hatred, vengeance, and evil as mere states of mind, which Jiang links to positive psychology.
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"In half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It..."
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"...confused as to why the world is what it is. This hatred for the world is, causing him to hate himself as well. And..."
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"And this creates the question, why is this the case? Why does he refuse to name Dido? So if you go back to the,..."
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"...heart, Virgil knows that this was unfair. That this was pure hatred. And so he feels a bit guilty about it. He feels embarrassed..."
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", right but at the same time you went to prison right you've been punished already so justice has been served so you cannot..."
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"...has been done to them are so focused on vengeance, on hatred, on anger, that you can never ever be a happy person. You..."
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"...you can see the emotional turmoil in his face, right? There's hatred. There's disgust. There's contempt. There's guilt. He hates himself, right?"
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"He hates his son, but he hates himself even more. There's all this crazy energy, hateful energy that's being unleashed. The Roman way is..."
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"He takes out this rage on Hector, which is a Roman way. And then Prime comes and forgives Achilles by kissing his hand. And..."
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"...gift of God, poetry is a gift of God, to promote hatred, then you're going to burn in hell, man. Okay? So he asked..."
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"...that Priam is one of your ancestors, you have a deep hatred of the Greeks. Okay, so the entire purpose of the Indian ad..."
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"...that make sense? Okay. So for example, take the idea of hatred and vengeance. Well, hatred and vengeance would become manifested in gods like..."
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