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10 timestamped hits 2 source readings 2 extracted notes Aliases: approvals

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Approval

He says students are in school mainly to please parents and teachers because parents pay for life and teachers give grades; learning is not the actual priority in the game.

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Key Notes

School-game diagnosis on 2026-01-08.

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He says students are in school mainly to please parents and teachers because parents pay for life and teachers give grades; learning is not the actual priority in the game.

continuation of student answer in this lecture

diagnosis

Jiang says social media creates a fake prison for imagination by making people pursue likes and imagined approval rather than meaningful happiness.

Timestamped Evidence

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination

Transcript

"But, the social media system has created this fake system in which we're in prison. Our imagination is in prison and pursuing activities that..."

The End of the End of History

2026-03-24, day precision · Game Theory #15: The Return of History

Transcript

"...started to bomb countries such as Libya and Syria about international approval. Most recently, it went to attack Iran without even asking for the..."

The Old Own The Future

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy

Transcript

"...are people killing themselves? So if you see, the number of approval rates have been going way up. It seems as though they have..."

Rome's Cult Of No Surrender

2024-11-07, day precision · Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome

Transcript

"...king and this war will end. The Senate gives Lucius his approval and Lucius sneaks into the enemy camp. It's payday which means the..."

Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game

2024-05-22, day precision · Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris

Transcript

"...Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, were expanding this war without public approval, without congressional approval, okay? So there was a lot of deception. That's..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Imagination Came Before Civilization

2025-10-21, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.

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