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1 timestamped hit 1 source reading 1 extracted note Newest source: 2026-01-21, day precision Aliases: unacknowledged-legislators-of-the-worlds, unacknowledged-legislators-world, unacknowledged-legislators-worlds

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Unacknowledged legislators of the world

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...which is moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, okay? Poets are prophets and their words create our reality."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...which is moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, okay? Poets are prophets and their words create our reality."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization (2026-01-21, day precision).

Most connected source reading: The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization.

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Unacknowledged legislators of the world

Glossary

A quoted formula Jiang endorses to mean that poets create the language and reality by which the world is ordered, even when that authority is not recognized.

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The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization

2026-01-21, day precision · glossary, semantic-ref

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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