287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism
The Symbolic World
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The Hierarchy of Stories
The hierarchies are never just this simple top down thing. They have a kind of variability and ways that to shortcut when things go wrong along the along the hierarchy itself. So if this is true for like, you could say social ecclesiastical hierarchies, it's also true for the hierarchy of stories when we're talking about universal history. We start with this kind of one grand foundational story, which is sort of mythic, the mythic content of Christianity plus Rome. That's the ground into which you have these increasingly localized identity conferring patterns.
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