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Application Performance

Harvard wants applicants to perform mutually incompatible identities: selfless passion, billionaire ambition, and absolute loyalty to Harvard.

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Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

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Harvard wants applicants to perform mutually incompatible identities: selfless passion, billionaire ambition, and absolute loyalty to Harvard.

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · claims

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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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