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Jiang suggests Dante's paradoxes make the reader wonder whether the presented reality is being created by a stronger power, and whether Virgil is master of hell's logic.
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Jiang suggests Dante's paradoxes make the reader wonder whether the presented reality is being created by a stronger power, and whether Virgil is master of hell's logic.
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Jiang frames the talk around why the United States-Iran war started, how it will end, and what comes after it, saying the answers require a theory of reality itself.
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Reality is described as a collective hallucination: people name shadows, build language around them, and mistake that shared symbolic order for the real world.
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For Jiang's Greeks, war fighting and speech making are the same civilizational act by different means: both try to impose a reality on others.
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Speech making works by projecting a movie onto the world so that others inhabit, observe, absorb, and internalize a new reality.
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Achilles understands Odysseus' attempt to conquer him rhetorically and responds with his own reality rather than entering Odysseus' world.
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Speech making is a war of realities and narratives in which speakers create worlds that compete for listener internalization.
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Jiang presents Kant as primarily concerned with how humans understand reality, why they see what they see, and why they think the thoughts they have.
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"...think that maybe everything I'm seeing is not real. Maybe this reality, it's being created for me by a stronger power. Okay? So the..."
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"They have no imagination. They don't actually speak or think. They're just a machine. Whereas Virgil is the one who's navigating and negotiating hell...."
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"...questions, we need to discuss the nature and structure of our reality. And the first thing you need to understand, which is very hard,..."
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"...tell stories about these shadows. And this becomes, really, our collective reality, okay?"
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"So another way of saying this is that reality is a... collective conscious, which is really a hallucination, okay? So there's certain things about..."
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"...what you're trying to do is you're trying to impose your reality onto the world. And make others believe what you believe. Right? You..."
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"They're trying to create their own reality. Okay? So with speech, what you're really trying to do is you're trying to project a movie..."
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"...the world that everyone can observe and then absorb this new reality."
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"Okay? Internalize this new reality. Right? And Achilles knows this. And Achilles refuses to be beaten. Right? So Achilles, through his speech, counters Odysseus..."
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"Because in speech making, it's a war of realities. It's a war of narratives. And you create narratives through speeches. Okay? But not only..."
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"...in front of people and make a speech and create a reality for people to accept. All right? And this is what leads to..."
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"...us is this. Traditionally, we've understood ourselves as passive observers of reality. Okay? This thing is before us. We stand before it and we..."
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