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A student says directed education imposes a single definition of success, and Jiang immediately accepts the point.
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Conformity
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Achilles would probably fail in today's society because modern paths to athletic fame require coaches, sponsors, regimen, authority, structure, and conformity that conflict with his independent nature.
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Authority and conformity are the two psychological mechanisms underlying secret-society power.
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Democracy’s conformity and tyranny of the majority prevent great individuals from arising because dissent against popular opinion is punished rather than joined.
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Over time, bureaucracy ossifies: centralization becomes corruption and rent seeking, systemization becomes stagnation, and standardization becomes conformity or homogenization.
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Jiang says public schools in China are heavily monitored through textbooks and tests, producing extreme conformity in the education system.
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Jiang argues American elite education produces ideological conformity while celebrating skin-color diversity, leaving little intellectual diversity on contested questions such as immigration and population replacement.
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Jiang says organized religions change over time to serve empire and politics and therefore become too conformist and static.
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"directed education so giving one definition of what it means to be successful exactly yes"
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"a narrow definition of success yes uh yes degradation in the aesthetic standards okay great so i'm convinced we are totally screwed okay all..."
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"...the test that you must take. And so China has extreme conformity in its education system. private natural schools are a gray area because..."
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"You know, unfortunately, I think. That if you are educated in America, you know, I went to Yale, Yale, and so I know a..."
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"Yeah. I mean, like there's different skin color, but if you actually look at the ideas that they engage with in a classroom, it's..."
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"Um, so, I have issues with the Islamic faith, okay? My major issue is that, you know, I got a lot of hate for..."
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"I think one of the greatest lies in our lives is that the meritocracy promotes the best leaders. So if you went to Europe,..."
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"...would rebel against all this authority, all this structure, all this conformity. And so he would probably fail in today's society, okay?"
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"So China is in the opposite situation where it is the hegemon of East Asia. And it feels invincible because it's protected by these..."
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"...convinced he saw a circle. Okay? That's the power of group conformity, okay? So two ideas, authority and conformity is what underlies the power..."
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"...in democracy what happens is great individuals are oppressed by the conformity the tyranny of the majority okay does that make sense right if..."
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"out and you speak speak what's unjust people will follow you in a democracy in middle class society which is conformist you're not you're..."
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