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A nonviolent means of making people conform because everyone wants to get along.
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Shame
A nonviolent means of making people conform because everyone wants to get along.
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Odysseus had been shattered because he went to Troy for justice, family, and legacy but instead destroyed families and committed war crime.
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Achilles' mutilation of Hector is a sign that he has gone insane from guilt and shame rather than a sign of triumph.
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Writing forces Jiang to shorten, moralize, and sanitize the same story because written words leave the intimate relationship and expose the author to outside judgment.
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Jiang compares the transition from oral tradition to literary culture to Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge: knowledge brings shame, nakedness, and exile from a prior garden.
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Jiang asks whether civilization makes humans less creative by making them more ashamed of exploration, curiosity, and play.
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In Jiang's pagan model, community memory and shame matter more than individual survival, illustrated by Achilles, Musius, Hector, and Lucretia.
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Odysseus' PTSD appears as shame and avoidance: he is stuck with Calypso, crying on the beach, unable to go home because he cannot face his family.
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Sexual taboos and the stud/slut double standard are presented as cultural tools for shaming women into proper behavior and controlling women's bodies.
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"remember the main um problem uh conflict in the Odyssey is that Odysseus his world view is shattered his sense of identity purpose is..."
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"discuss is this all right so achilles jumps in the battlefield and he kills hector all right and at this point achilles should be..."
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"Hector stood his ground and died, right? Everyone else ran back in the state of Troy, but Hector is like, no, I must take..."
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"Maomao closes her eyes, prays to God and says, dear God, I wish for a room full of chocolate every day. And that's how..."
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"Immediately his room filled with strawberries. He ate them happily. The next morning his room filled with strawberries. He ate them. The very next..."
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"...people are still watching you. Therefore you have a sense of shame. You're very conscious about your thoughts and how they affect on people...."
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"And because of this they are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. with that metaphor. Okay? Oral tradition we leave it behind and..."
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"humanity even though there's like eight billion of us we have more wealth and technology than ever before what literary masterpiece have we created?..."
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"You're just brave. Okay? That's a pagan worldview. This is important for us. This is important for us because the people who will feature..."
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"...afraid of being laughed at by his lieutenant. He's afraid of shame. He has to die for his community. He has to die for..."
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"...then Augustine explains Lucretia killed herself because she's afraid of the shame that she would have to endure if she lived."
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"And so what happens is Odysseus is traumatized by what he sees. Okay? And this is what we call PTSD, right? Post Traumatic Stress..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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