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The leader who unifies a people need not be a general; a poet, prophet, priest, or thinker can give a people a shared religion or imagination.
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The leader who unifies a people need not be a general; a poet, prophet, priest, or thinker can give a people a shared religion or imagination.
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He defines apocalyptic literature as revelation of divine truth through a prophet or poet, with Ezekiel's eaten scroll as the upper-level tradition Dante overturns.
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He argues that God cannot know who God is because omniscience and omnipresence leave God without imagination; Dante, the mortal poet, must supply that imaginative knowledge.
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Jiang says Dante writes for the universe and future readers: the poem is a secret box that transforms those who keep working at it.
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In this model, the poet functions as a vessel for divine messages, and a beautiful divine song can make the king himself appear divine.
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"...leader doesn't necessarily mean a general, it could also mean a poet, right? So, someone like Homer or a great thinker to give you..."
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"...say that we are a people and it could be a poet, it could be a general, it could be a prophet, a priest,..."
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"And so we are talking about the creation for the divine comedy of a new mind for humanity. If Homer was the father of..."
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"...God reveals the truth to us through a prophet or a poet. Okay? So this is Ezekiel, which is one of the earliest books..."
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"Okay? So let's go to Dante. And remember, Dante will be a rebuttal to all these ideas. All right. So this is the Imperium,..."
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"comedy any questions about this so far um that's a really good question who is he writing to who is his audience um so..."
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"...world okay does it make sense he's a prophet he's a poet and so he's not really writing it to make money or uh..."
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"...God chose me? How do I prove that? Because there's a poet who sings a beautiful song about me. And this song can only..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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