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3 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: elite-club

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Elite Clubs

Harvard alone is not enough; elite reproduction also runs through senior clubs and secret societies such as Porcellian, Ivy Club, and Skull and Bones.

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Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

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Harvard alone is not enough; elite reproduction also runs through senior clubs and secret societies such as Porcellian, Ivy Club, and Skull and Bones.

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

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

Transcript

"We're just average people. There's no way Harvard controls America. All right? Now, as I mentioned at Harvard, just going to Harvard is not..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...truth for themselves. Now modern literature, it's really just this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. Okay. James Joyce was good friends..."

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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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