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The deeper self composed of cultural values; Jiang contrasts it with the conscious self.
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Subconscious
The deeper self composed of cultural values; Jiang contrasts it with the conscious self.
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He models Patroclus and Achilles as internally layered actors, directors, and producers: emotion, calculation, and long-term strategy operate simultaneously inside each person.
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Muscle memory is used as evidence that training can remain in the subconscious even if conscious identity and memories disappear.
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After religious and royal authority are rejected, mythology becomes the subconscious operating system that guides revolutionary society.
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Cultural values are the most persistent part of the self because they live in the subconscious; ultimately, Jiang says, you are your subconscious.
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Proto-Indo-European groups could assimilate into different environments and look physically different while retaining a shared subconscious value system that shaped worldview, mythology, literature, and language.
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Jiang claims the Divine Comedy becomes a blueprint for the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution because poetry enters memory and shapes the subconscious brain.
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Jiang says the brain slowly detects Virgil's problems beneath conscious awareness and constructs an anti-Virgil, pro-Dante worldview.
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Jiang says poetry is more effective than philosophy because philosophy remains debatable ideas while poetry enters the subconscious and becomes the building blocks of the psyche.
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"He refuses to apologize. But he tells Patroclus, listen, we can't get Achilles to fight, but maybe you can fight for us. And maybe..."
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"Planning level, all right? So imagine three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before..."
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"...ego. Or maybe you can think of this as the conscious subconscious, all right?"
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"behavior certain actions in us okay so we're all programmable with a certain degree okay so to better understand this let me give you..."
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"...because you've been trained it's muscle memory it's in it's your subconscious so that's a trick here the trick is to train you in..."
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"...guides society now? And the answer is mythologies. Mythologies are the subconscious operating system of society. Does that make sense? So what mythology does..."
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"...part of who you are. Why? Because it's part of your subconscious. Okay? There's a conscious you, and there's a subconscious. And ultimately, you..."
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"So, even though the Proto -Indo -Europeans, they were going into different environments, and they were assimilating themselves into different environments, and they looked..."
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"of the I never forgot about her, and it was this love for Beatrice that would inspire him to create the Divine Comedy, which..."
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"So remember the Greeks, how did they educate themselves? They memorized Homer. The Romans memorized Virgil. And the Italians, aliens memorize Dante, and poetry..."
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"like mysteries it doesn't like it doesn't like contradictions okay so it's always trying to resolve these contradictions in order to formulate a coherent..."
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"narrator all right so we're going to study some passages from the divine comedy to see how dante does this and it's very clever..."
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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 lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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