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
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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Athenian banishment or exile for ten years, presented as a mechanism for restraining excessive competition.
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.
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.
Ostracism is presented as Athens' institutional response to citizens becoming too competitive in the pursuit of eudaimonia.
Jiang says Pericles neutralized anti-corruption opponents by having the people vote to exile them, leaving him without political opposition.
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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..."
"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..."
"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..."
"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..."
"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..."
"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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