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Norse mythology creates community by instilling courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness rather than merely entertaining listeners.
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Civilization is a set of values and ideas that guide life, and the Aeneid becomes influential because it installs an inverted, poisoned Homeric value system at Roman scale.
Marduk's new order proclaims values of struggle, exploitation, toil, control, and irrigation, replacing a mother-goddess religion of balance and harmony.
Norse mythology creates community by instilling courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness rather than merely entertaining listeners.
Jiang says the deeper explanation is that each civilization's value system or character determines its fate in war and history.
"...civilization all right and what is civilization but a set of values a set of ideas that guide you in your life okay and..."
"...is Marduk proclaiming a new order, but he's also proclaiming new values. New values of struggle, exploitation, toil. Right? Before, the mother goddess was..."
"...to do is create community among the Vikings and instill certain values. Okay? The three major values that these stories manifest and express are..."
"...because they're stronger because they're more clever. Okay? The last Viking value is resourcefulness. So the idea here is when you venture off into..."
"...precise. Okay? I want to show you that ultimately it's the value system or what is known as the character of these different civilizations..."
Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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