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Jiang argues China did not produce a Homer or great thinker because scholar officials feared independent thinking and used censorship to control how people thought.
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Jiang argues China did not produce a Homer or great thinker because scholar officials feared independent thinking and used censorship to control how people thought.
"...if you're a scholar official, what you're most afraid of is independent thinking, okay? So censorship, censorship was their main role, okay? Controlling how..."
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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