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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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Myth
Romans behave according to myths they believe, so false stories still become real social scripts.
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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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Jiang interprets later Freud as a myth-maker or priestly figure, unlike the early Freud who appeared scientific, nuanced, and balanced.
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Napoleon chose Italy and Egypt because those theaters let him act out Caesar, Hannibal, and Alexander myths.
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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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"...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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"So everything that we've read is not true, but the Romans thought it was true. And remember, people cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality...."
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"and the three goddesses are hera who is the queen god they are athena the gods of wisdom and aphrodite who is the goddess..."
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"course each goddess is trying to bribe paris so hera says paris if you pick me i will give you a kingdom i will..."
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"a king but there are lots of other kings you have wisdom but like who knows you have wisdom right but hey if you..."
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"them if you didn't like the situation guess what you'd go somewhere else and start your own organization okay so so early human history..."
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"this in a cave because they want to express themselves they want to leave a legacy they want to leave a memory there's a..."
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"them for the sacrifice by commemorating them the same thing as later on uh when humans fight in battles we build monuments to celebrate..."
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"후보 ok marble here and this is the photo called arte x you can tell this is from theis you know the picture is..."
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"island the resources you need to survive trees food and rivers the monkeys are there okay there's one safe spot in the center but..."
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