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No,
if you look at plastic hero mythology,

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which we're going to do in great detail,
what you see is that the typical myth of

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it,
of humanity is we live in a place,

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will say we have to live in a place and 
the place is doing quite nicely.

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Thank you very much.
It's like the hobbits and,

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and,
uh,

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Frodo,
right?

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The first one,
the Lord that the,

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uh,
what was it called?

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The hobbit.
The hobbit.

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Okay,
so you've got a little shy or they're 

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right.
It's all peaceful.

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It's full of these little people who are
a little on the arrogant side.

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They're kind of dopey.
They have no idea what the hell is going

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on in the outside world,
but they think that's okay.

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They think,
you know,

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just,
you know,

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peculiar people are concerned about that
sort of thing.

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They got their little happy paradise 
going.

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They live a long time,
they eat a lot,

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you know,
they party a lot unbeknownst to them,

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which is very interesting feature of the
story.

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The only reason they have any peace at 
all,

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it's because they are descendants of old
kings continually patrolling the 

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borders.
Right?

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Those are the striders Aragorn.
He's the member of the race of old kings

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who patrols the borders.
Well,

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those are.
Those are ancestral figures.

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It's like you can all sit here,
your little happy paradise,

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but the only reason you can do it is 
because the sons of great kings have put

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borders around your kingdom and you can 
think it's funny because in the hobbits,

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hobbits basically despise strider.
You're like,

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you're very,
very suspicious of him.

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He's kind of dirty and dusty and they 
looks like he's been banged around all 

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over the world.
He started like a trap.

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It's like they don't know.
He's the son of a great king.

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Good thing for them that he is,
however.

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Okay,
so then you've got the little shyer and 

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what happens even though things are 
stirring and what is it?

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Well,
fundamentally it's a great dragon.

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Well,
that's a snake,

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except it's like medicine snake,
you know,

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it's,
it's,

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it's snake with fire and you can be sure
that fire was not only one of our 

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greatest allies,
but one of our greatest enemies,

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especially when we lived on the Veltin 
Africa,

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because that thing would burn now in 
them,

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you know,
and so get the hell away from that as 

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well.
So anyways,

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so one hobbit,
who's woken up by a wizard,

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the wizard is a symbol of the cell from 
the union perspective.

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So there's one hobbit who's a little bit
more creative and exploratory than the 

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rest,
and everybody has a level of respect for

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him,
but they think he's pretty damn 

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peculiar.

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He decides that he's gonna under the 
tutelage of the wizard.

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He's going to go check out this dragon.
So he leaves the borders and he goes out

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into the unknown.
And then the rest of it is an adventure.

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And one of the things that's very 
interesting again,

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from a union perspective is that what is
the hobbit have to become in order to 

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conquer the Dragon?
A thief?

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Now that's pretty weird,
a because you think,

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hey man,
this guy's out to be a hero,

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so he should be a hero.
It's like,

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no,
he turns into a thief.

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Why?
Well,

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it's because if you're going to conquer 
a dragon,

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you be a hell of a lot tougher than you 
are naive,

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and so partly what happens is that for 
the hobbit to muster up the forces that 

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are necessary for him to confront 
something that that is that fundamental,

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he asked to transcend his towered.

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What would you call it?
The the cowardice that he describes as 

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morality.
Okay,

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so need shift,
for example,

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niche is often viewed as a critic critic
of morality.

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It's like that's not true.
What?

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Because nature identifies morality with 
cowardice,

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but that's not what he does.
What Nisha says is this,

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if you're too afraid to do something so 
you won't do it,

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then you'll say that the reason that you
don't do it is because your moral.

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That's not the reason.
The reason is it's you're too damn 

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afraid to do it.
You might want to,

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but you're too afraid.
That doesn't make you moral.

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So what happens to the Harvard,
for example,

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is once he gets outside the kingdom,
he asked to develop a whole array of 

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potentials that he never developed 
before because they were either not 

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necessary in his civilized place or 
because they were forbidden as immoral 

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by the cultural situation that he grew 
up there.