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Jiang interprets Dante's allusion by linking Pallas and Athena to Romulus and Remus through the repeated structure of one twin killing the loved counterpart to found or secure power.
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Myth
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A participant recalls the Apollo pursuit myth as background for the allusion Jiang is invoking.
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He argues Mussolini understood the nation-state's real purpose as fighting wars and that a mythology of war can make people happily fight and die.
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Religion is defined here as a long-lost memory of the ancient past told through myths and stories, containing truth because it encodes historical and personal experience.
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Romans behave according to myths they believe, so false stories still become real social scripts.
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The Trojan War legend begins as a mythic escalation of status, sex, divine rivalry, and trade conflict around Troy.
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Cave paintings are treated as purposeful adult religious artworks that express dreams, legacy, mythology, and a cycle of life, death, destruction, renewal, and balance.
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In Jiang's island model, existential danger produces a new common language, founding myth, religion, rituals, and leader among otherwise unrelated men.
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"Yeah, that's a great question. Does anyone know the answer? It's actually a very hard question. So I want to thank you for pointing..."
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"...is very confusing for people, is that he tends to combine myths together. Okay? So you have the myth of Pallas and Athena. What..."
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"That person was running from Apollo because Apollo was chasing her."
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"And it was Mussolini who basically understood that the real purpose of a nation -state is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars..."
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"We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. It is..."
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"Yeah. Something I found fascinating from our conversation yesterday when we'd had a chat was that your belief, that you have a belief that..."
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"...he was a master media manipulator. Okay. So he created the myth that there are these people who are seeking to conquer the world...."
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"because if you're just this average Joe and you read about these guys, you're like, this is actually pretty cool. Yeah, I should join..."
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"...memory or long lost memory of our ancient past told through myths and stories. So, there's truth to religion because it's basing a lot..."
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"yeah no i think that's fair um yeah i let me preface this um with uh my approach here because i think we are..."
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"...mythology of hitler and nazism is very strong it's the founding myth and it does a lot of work obviously for the support of..."
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"you thinking like i'm not very satisfied with the way this conversation is going and i raised my hand and i basically said monsters..."
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