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Does "acts on a dispersed and scattered people" in the following text imply:
1. "affects dispersed and scattered people"
or
2. "solves the problem of dispersed and scattered people (solves their scatteredness)"
or
3. "emerges among dispersed and scattered people"?
Text:
... Gramsci’s view of myth as “a concrete phantasy which acts on a dispersed and scattered people to arouse and organize its collective will”.
Top answer
Note that the writer uses the indefinite article, "a people". In other words, they are of a kind. They are a nation if only they could come to see themselves as a nation.
- Note that the writer uses the indefinite article, "a people".
- In other words, they are of a kind.
- They are a nation if only they could come to see themselves as a nation.
- Myth acts on them do do just that.
- Myth has that effect on them.
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Note that the writer uses the indefinite article, "a people". In other words, they are of a kind. They are a nation if only they could come to see themselves as a nation. Myth acts on them do do just that. Myth has that effect on them.
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