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He argues that elites maintain power by creating fictions of superiority such as elite degrees, IQ, or royal ancestry.
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Elite Fiction
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"Does it make sense? Any questions so far? Yeah, excuse me? Okay, that's a great question, okay? So one thing that was not supposed..."
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"They need to create fictions. For example, maybe, well, I went to Yale or Harvard, and therefore, I should be at the top. Or..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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