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12 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: maker, makers, myth-makers

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myth maker

A person who sees himself as destined to change the world and constructs a new reality that absorbs and alters the old one.

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Caesar's distinctive power is imagination: he can imagine himself as different people at once, become all three roles at once, and therefore understand opponents who cannot understand him.

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Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

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"...nuanced, very subtle in his thinking. This Freud, he's like a myth maker. He's almost like a priest. Okay? So what explains the transition?..."

Rome's War To Defeat Homer

2024-11-21, day precision · Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome

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"...planted the seeds of this. Remember, Julius Caesar is a great myth maker, okay? So, the myth he came up with is this. There..."

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