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Surprise

A surprising metaphor becomes memorable, and because it is remembered it can reorder the way reality is seen.

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2026-01-21 lecture causal account of metaphor

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A surprising metaphor becomes memorable, and because it is remembered it can reorder the way reality is seen.

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The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

Transcript

"Yeah. So this would not surprise me. Also, we have to remember, like, this happened in Utah, which is where the Mormons are. Yes...."

Stories Win The Game

2025-07-11, day precision · Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory

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"...week because I wanted to get a haircut this weekend and surprise everyone. But on Twitter many of you have been clamoring for the..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

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"it may surprise you to hear, like, most of its history, the Greeks didn't consider themselves as one people, as one culture, as one..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...how then? Where did they vanish to? You took me by surprise, you adolescents. Now with what they've salvaged from the tomb as their..."

Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor

2024-11-19, day precision · Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire

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"...this is not his real name So there's a second big surprise in the will and the third big surprise is this Caesar names..."

The World More Real Than Reality

2024-09-05, day precision · Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination

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"...say about this picture? What stands out about this picture? What surprises you or what catches your eye about them? What can we say..."

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The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization

2026-01-21, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...

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