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The Aeneid is propaganda and brainwashing because memorizing the poem makes the student travel Aeneas's path from human feeling to robotic obedience.
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The Aeneid is propaganda and brainwashing because memorizing the poem makes the student travel Aeneas's path from human feeling to robotic obedience.
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Jiang says the power of the Aeneid is that even if readers know what is happening, memorized poetry can transform them into the hero's obedient pattern.
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Jiang says the Greek education system was simple because it centered on memorizing the Iliad.
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Memorizing the Iliad teaches how to make a great speech because it trains impact, memorability, and the capacity to impress oneself onto others.
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Jiang models math education as forced formula memorization that makes people stupid because it cannot be tested against reality like philosophy or teaching can.
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Jiang says Athenian theaters were designed for resonance, performers had to project slowly, and audiences memorized lines, making performance both audible and participatory.
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"He is now the perfect soldier. And that's why Virgil wrote the Aenead. Because it is a piece of propaganda. It's a piece of..."
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"Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help..."
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"Because when you memorize the Iliad, you learn how to make a great speech. All right? And you understood that for me to make..."
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"They're both separate, and they are equal to each other, okay? Now, if you think about it, it makes actually no sense whatsoever. The..."
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"...the formulas to each other, okay? And that just requires massive memorization and regurgitation. That's why, if you think about it, the best mathematicians..."
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"Okay, so that's a great question about acoustics. We call this acoustics. So how the theater was designed was like this, okay? You have..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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