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In Jiang’s admissions model, a multigenerational Harvard legacy or world-famous athlete beats the math genius because fame, presidency, and corporate power build the university brand.
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Elite Selection
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...class but what people don't discuss is that china offshore its elite selection and indoctrination to america okay and this is very important this..."
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Jiang says China gained manufacturing and a middle class but lost civilizational and intellectual capacity by sending its elite to U.S. universities for indoctrination.
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Jiang says the Democratic Party did not run real democratic primaries in 2016, 2020, or 2024, and that this makes him wary of Democrats despite Republican failures.
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Jiang says the real puzzle of modern power is not just what top figures do, but why certain people are permitted to rise so seamlessly through elite systems in the first place.
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Jiang says the deeper mystery of modern power is why some people are allowed to succeed so seamlessly and what hidden obligations or behaviors are required to reach the top.
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Jiang says Yale functions like a venture capital portfolio that only needs a handful of spectacular winners and treats the rest of the student body as disposable tools.
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"...class but what people don't discuss is that china offshore its elite selection and indoctrination to america okay and this is very important this..."
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"over these past few decades china's civilization capacity its intellectual capacity has been severely downgraded so even though um china has become much more..."
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"2020 no one thought joe biden was going to win the democratic primaries and he was going to win the democratic primaries and beating..."
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"about trump he did win democratically in 2016 in the republican um primary okay the the republicans ran a democracy whereas the democrats did..."
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"not a viable business because it's social media right what's to stop me from starting another Facebook and then having people gravitate towards that..."
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"Jacob Frank for these stories is able to benefit benefits itself into you okay so one example is Mark Zuckerberg then you look at..."
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"at Stanford she got the Dean her Dean I've heard his name but but the Dean to back her uh startup and then she..."
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"right yes that's right and they're built up by Mark Carney who's now the Prime Minister of Canada so it's a very strange story..."
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"prove it okay but like you have to eat but there's a lot of things that you have to do to get to the..."
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"But it's really the Hunger Games. You go there, from day one, they expect you to compete against your classmates. Because Yale graduates 1,500..."
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"They have their own institutional reasons to let you in and they'll never tell you, all right? And the system was created to ensure..."
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"Basketball player in America, okay? Okay. The third is the best student. And the fourth is the best math genius in the world. And..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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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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