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Elite competition creates deep insecurity: students learn that everyone is an enemy and that stopping achievement means social death.
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Elite Formation
Elite competition creates deep insecurity: students learn that everyone is an enemy and that stopping achievement means social death.
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"Okay? But you're also competing for graduate school, for law school, for medical school, for scholarships like the Rhodes Scholarship, okay? So Yale, it..."
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"Okay? They're always looking to achieve. And that's what Yale wants. That's what Harvard wants, because these are the people who will be most..."
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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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