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Jiang attributes a broad crisis bundle to meritocracy: mental illness, social immobility, 1% wealth concentration, left-right division, corruption, identity breakdown, elite mismanagement, and soulless leadership.
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Crisis
Economic crises are presented as mechanisms for destroying money so that people continue to experience money as scarce.
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Economic crises are presented as mechanisms for destroying money so that people continue to experience money as scarce.
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Economic crises destroy money so that people again feel money is scarce and must work.
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Jiang describes the succession problem created by Eurydice as extremely controversial and 'like dynamite almost' because it threatened to push Alexander out of the line of succession.
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"Okay? And if you don't succeed, your parents will come and complain. Okay? Traumatized children. Okay? Okay? If you look at the rate of..."
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"So thank you, American meritocracy, for destroying the world."
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"That's why we have poverty because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable. In other words, poverty isn't what you do to yourself...."
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"And you wouldn't want to work hard in school, right? That's why we have poverty. Because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable...."
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"So Philip, at this point, already has six or seven wives. The problem is that only one of his wives, named Olympias, has given..."
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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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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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