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Removing the gods from the Priam/Achilles episode makes the story less powerful, less interesting, and less truthful.
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Storytelling
Jiang argues that humans created language for creative, musical, storytelling, and communal reasons, not primarily for economic coordination or hierarchy.
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Jiang argues that humans created language for creative, musical, storytelling, and communal reasons, not primarily for economic coordination or hierarchy.
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The Viking hall recreates something older than civilization: the Ice Age cave gathering where ancestors learned who they were through stories in darkness.
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The Maomao strawberry story demonstrates oral tradition's power because a child can remember, alter, and retell it, turning one story into a new story.
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For Caesar's myth making, Jiang says factual accuracy matters less than whether the details are appealing enough to make the story remembered and retold.
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Jiang defines the politician as an avatar of the people who captures emotions, dreams, and longings through charisma, manipulation, and story.
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"fetus to my presence so I can declare to her my solemn sound decree Achilles must receive a ransom from Queen Priam Achilles must..."
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"guilt and remorse for failing his son children spies watch Achilles drag Hector's body day and night they take turns spying and they know..."
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"...as painting was. And music, once you add words, it becomes storytelling. And that's why we created language, okay? Not for economic reasons, not..."
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"Some important things to know about this. First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about..."
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"the caves but to tell stories about where they came from who they are and where they're going. Alright? And all of our ancestors..."
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"So to conclude the class uh I know this is a lot to take in it's a lot of information so I apologize okay..."
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"He says that and God immediately responds. Immediately in his room it's full of strawberries and Maomao he's he loves strawberries he eats it..."
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"Scientists come. Everyone's trying to resolve this issue. Then the whole country of China is filled with strawberries. Then the whole continent of Asia..."
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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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"The pirates are like, that's really funny, man. Okay? So that's the second embellishment. The third embellishment is, Julius Caesar, after he was released,..."
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"Or they're able to accomplish great things in different aspects of society. The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is..."
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"...is that it does succeed it exceeds because of the great storytelling within the Bible"
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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