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hi there I'm Mike Rugnetta this is crash
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course mythology and today we're going
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to start the first of a few episodes
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show favorite trickster stories but be
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warned trickster myths can get sexy a
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little gross and they're filled with
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betrayal but we should be able to handle
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it right toad oh oh toe Stan just texted
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me you've been promoted to host so uh
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I'm just going to go grab a coffee see
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you later good luck just kidding there's
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no way to talk it hosts the show he's
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like thousands of years old and he only
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speaks ancient Egyptian which literally
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no one understands but roping some
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sucker into doing my work is exactly the
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sort of thing a trickster would
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trickster stories are traditionally very
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popular and for a good reason
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in many trickster stories the underdogs
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come out on top and not by virtue of
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their superior strength or immortal
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attributes either but because of their
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smarts another appealing thing about
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tricksters is that they're transgresses
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they're rebels and who doesn't love a
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rebel just ask Ares Greek god of war and
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rebellion or James Dean the American god
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of pomade and leather jackets a good
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place to start his mythologist David Li
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Ming's description of a trickster the
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trickster is at once wise and foolish
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the perpetrator of tricks and the butt
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of his own jokes always male he is
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promiscuous and amoral he is outrageous
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in his actions he emphasizes the lower
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bodily functions he often takes animal
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form if the trickster is profoundly
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inventive creative by nature and in some
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ways a helper to humanity so a moral and
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scatological but otherwise a good guy we
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all have that friend I think let's begin
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in Africa African trickster stories
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remain popular and frequently have
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ambiguous or morally dubious endings
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according to theory and Divini unlike
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European folk tales which usually has a
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happy ending
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trickster stories typically end in
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disharmony so let's see exactly what
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they mean by disharmony in the FATA
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Anansi the spider and his son Quakers
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and our farmers having a bad year
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because of a drought one day quakin sin
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is out for a walk lamenting the poor
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harvest and he sees a hunchback dwarfed
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by the side of the road
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the dwarf asks quakes in what's wrong
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and when he explains the dwarf promises
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to help
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he tells quakin seem to find two small
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sticks and tapped him lightly on his
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hump while singing so pat test and it
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begins to rain soon the crops start
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growing Anansi thinks he can do better
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and goes to look for the dwarf himself
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making sure to bring two big sticks the
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dwarf tells a non-si to tap him on his
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hump again but Anansi ends up hitting
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the dwarf so hard that he killed him now
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Anansi is scared because the dwarf was
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the King's favorite jester so he puts
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the dwarfs body in a Cola tree and wait
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when his son quicken sin come by and
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asks his father if he'd seen the dwarf
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Ananse he tells him that the dwarf is
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climbing the tree looking for a : the
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quicken sin climbs up the tree the
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dwarfs body falls down to the ground
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Anansi cries out that his son had killed
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the Kings jester the Quaker thin nose
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announced his tricks and replies that
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the king was actually angry with the
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dwarf and now he could go to the king
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and collect a reward knowing there's a
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bounty announced he exclaims that he had
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killed the dwarf Anansi arrives at the
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Kings Court and discovers the king was
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not angry with the Jester but now he's
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certainly angry with Anansi the King
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orders the body of the dwarf to be put
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in a box which announcement must carry
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on his head forever unless he finds
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someone else to carry it eventually
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announced he comes across ant and asks
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him to hold the box while he goes to the
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market and wouldn't you know it ant fall
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for it this is why so this day we often
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see ants carrying great bird thanks
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thought-bubble
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probably becoming clear why you know a
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lot of us just don't trust spiders in a
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number of ways this is a classic African
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trickster story it features animals with
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human characteristics interacting in a
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human world the trickster is initially
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undone by his own greed if an Ozzy had
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just listened to his son and not tried
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to outdo him he would have been okay
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also maybe he shouldn't have tried to
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frame his son for a murder but a non-si
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failed in his attempt to
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he's crying because his son knows his
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reputation for duplicity
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despite his cleverness amounts his greed
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gets the better of him
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his desire for the reward leads him to
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admit his bad deed and be punished for
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it and if he did end up carrying the
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coffin for eternity the story might
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provide a lesson about justice but a
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non-si being a trickster is able to
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convince someone else to bear his burden
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so he gets off scot-free the ending of
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the story does explain a natural
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phenomenon why ants are so industrious
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but the story isn't exactly a model for
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good behavior in the end an ounce he
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gets away with killing the dwarf and
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come up in his brief and the only thing
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he learns is that amp are total suckers
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it's really like a Quentin Tarantino
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film of tricks turning the story of
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Anansi and the aunt bears some
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resemblance to one of Hercules labors
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we'll talk more about Hercules when we
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get to our episode on heroes but the
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long and short that he had to do twelve
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labors and completing them cemented his
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reputation one of these Labour's xi was
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to gather Zeus's golden apples from the
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far end of the earth these apples were
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guarded by a dragon and the Hesperides
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nymphs who were the daughters of Atlas
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the Titan with the unenviable task of
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holding the world on his shoulders
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taught about legendary back pain it took
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a long time and a number of adventures
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before Hercules even found out where the
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apples were but eventually he told about
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them by another trickster Prometheus
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if you remember him he's a guy who stole
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fire for the humans and was punished by
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being chained to a rock and having his
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liver eaten daily by an eagle well good
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news eventually Hercules killed that
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eagle and in return Prometheus tells him
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that's the way to get the apples isn't
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to fight a dragon but to simply ask
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Atlas atlas can easily get past his
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daughters and that mr. dragon no sweat
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so Hercules makes a deal with Atlas
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Hercules will hold up the world giving
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Atlas a much-needed break and in return
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Apple Atlas is thrilled because I mean
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think about it how would you feel
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holding up the literal world all the
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time so he leaves he goes he grabs the
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apples the problem is that when he
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returns he tells Hercules that he really
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doesn't want to hold up the earth and
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the sky anymore so like maybe that's
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just your job now Hercules I don't know
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spit balling here so here's Hercules he
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can't move he's holding the world after
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all but he does some quick tricky
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thinking he tells that list sure he'll
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do it but could Atlas take the earth and
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sky back for just a second while he gets
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some padding for his shoulders and when
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atlas agrees
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Hercules grabs the apples and vamoose
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Asst tricksters tricking tricksters are
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they like that Mapple in these stories
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we see that it often doesn't take much
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for a trickster to figure out how to
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fool the object of his trick sometimes
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called a dupe often the dupe doesn't
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really deserve it although it's hard to
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feel sorry for Atlas who was attempting
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some minor league tricks during himself
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while tricksters can be seen as playful
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scamp's they also show us that play can
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be dangerous especially when like amount
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see we let it go too far in the announce
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II story the trickster acts as what
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Leonard and mcore call a moral
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counterexample tricksters are frequently
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greedy and lazy dishonest and gluttonous
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vain and impulsive thus they can be seen
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as agents of chaos for society provides
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the greatest advantages to the greatest
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number only if everyone restrained his
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or her impulses and cravings and makes
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allowances for the needs of others we're
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usually better off when we don't lie or
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cheat each other but that's exactly what
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tricksters do we're typically happy when
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they're punished for their tricks but
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this doesn't always happen
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trickster stories can be especially
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troubling because not only do they
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usually get away with their tricks but
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are often celebrated for it tricksters
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aren't all bad though the trickster can
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provide a model for the oppressed to
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reclaim some autonomy in the face of
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overwhelming power this is one of the
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main lessons of the brayer rabbit
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stories which are descended from African
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trickster stories but transplanted into
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the context of chattel slavery in
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english-speaking North America brayer
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can be seen as representing slaves who
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would use their ingenuity to fort and
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outsmart cruel plantation owners maybe
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then it's worth asking what would happen
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if the tricksters just always won and
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the truth is while some tricks tourism
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may be justified and a little bit of
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transgression here and there is fun if
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everyone decides that it's okay to beat
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dwarves to death in order to double the
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amount of rainfall metaphorically
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speaking
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that wouldn't be great trickster stories
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are often morally ambiguous in this way
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even Brer Rabbit isn't all
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clearly the good guy and that one part
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of why we like them so much maybe
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sometimes it's simply a thrill to break
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the rule we as human can see ourselves
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pretty clearly in the trickster myths
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it's hard to identify with someone who
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can hold the world or who goes on
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errands for the father of creation but
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we've all at least tried our hand
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bamboozling someone into taking over our
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responsibility sorry - you're a good boy
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