Glossary
Being exiled from the group or kicked out as a player, which Jiang treats as one of the strongest social fears.
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ostracism
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Well, because we would be ostracized by society. I mean, for example, there's also the philosopher, Diogenes, who lived in poverty."
Key Notes
Glossary
Athenian banishment or exile for ten years, presented as a mechanism for restraining excessive competition.
diagnosis
Jiang accepts the student's point that radical poverty usually carries public humiliation and social ostracism, with Diogenes offered as a classical example.
model
He says social players fear ostracism or exile from the group, so they try to beat others while also avoiding behavior that gets them thrown out of the game.
diagnosis
He interprets backlash against his reform as a defense of norms: by arguing against local conventions, he made supporters risk ostracism by the larger community.
model
Ostracism is presented as Athens' institutional response to citizens becoming too competitive in the pursuit of eudaimonia.
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Jiang says Pericles neutralized anti-corruption opponents by having the people vote to exile them, leaving him without political opposition.
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Jiang argues that a good life requires risk, exploration, and fearlessness not only toward death but also toward ridicule and social ostracism.
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Jiang argues that in older small-scale communities psychopaths were easier to identify and punish because social life was close-knit and ostracism or banishment carried existential consequences.
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"Well, because we would be ostracized by society. I mean, for example, there's also the philosopher, Diogenes, who lived in poverty."
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"Yeah, yeah, he lived in Athens in a barrel or something for his whole life. A bathtub. Or a bathtub, yeah. And yeah, he..."
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"Look, look, we're here to learn. We're here to live our best lives. And that means taking risks. That means exploration. That means trying..."
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"That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to..."
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"Australization. Okay? Or basically just exile. Where you are no longer part of the group. They kick you out as a player. Okay? That's..."
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"I was arguing against the norms, the values, the conventions of this country. And it's, and so if people believed in me, then they..."
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"that not society it is really not natural right because remember uh for most of our lives we lived in small bands small societies..."
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"And Agamemnon says, I don't need you. What Achilles did was he went to his mother, who was a goddess, and Achilles said to..."
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"was being too competitive in the pursuit of eudaimonia, the Athenian people could choose to ostracize this person. And what this meant was you'd..."
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"Okay? So, this is basically official corruption. Now, there are people in the upper nobility who thought what Pericles was doing was terrible for..."
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