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Acting

Only dissociated, actor-like people can convincingly perform the non-utilitarian passion that Harvard demands from people who are applying for utilitarian reasons.

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Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

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Only dissociated, actor-like people can convincingly perform the non-utilitarian passion that Harvard demands from people who are applying for utilitarian reasons.

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

Transcript

"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."

History As River, Prophecy As Plan

2026-04-09, day precision · Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination

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"...are all American vassal states. And so they're not capable of acting independently of American policy. There is the illusion that they are independent,..."

The War Runs on End-Times Scripts

2026-03-12, day precision · Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence

Transcript

"...both time and space, meaning that you can actually spend centuries acting out the script because everyone knows his role anyway, okay? And it..."

The War Runs on End-Times Scripts

2026-03-12, day precision · Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence

Transcript

"...mainstream idea. But in the most extreme version, redemption just means acting out God's plan to compel the return of the Messiah, okay? And..."

The Empire of Myth

2025-04-29, day precision · Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth

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"...like I will become your Messiah and he did that by acting it out but pretending that's in the great but pretending to be..."

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · claims

Reading

The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...

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