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7 timestamped hits 3 source readings 6 extracted notes Aliases: consciousness, stream-consciousness

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stream of consciousness

Modern literary technique Jiang criticizes as undisciplined mental wandering produced by spiritual disconnection.

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Modernism model in the 2025-06-04 lecture.

diagnosis

Modern literature, represented by Ulysses, is described as elitist, self-referential, allusive, stream-of-consciousness writing that breaks from older literature's effort to empower people to seek truth.

Lecture critique of modern literature.

diagnosis

Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.

Timestamped Evidence

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

Transcript

"...really how our minds work. So this captures really well stream of consciousness thinking. And she's heavily influenced by Freud, right?"

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...the bigger story here? And it's used in something called stream of consciousness writing, which is it's trying to capture the mind as it..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...really how our minds work. So this captures really well stream of consciousness thinking. Okay. And she's heavily influenced by Freud. Right? She's trying..."

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Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield

2025-11-06, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

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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