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8 timestamped hits 3 source readings 4 extracted notes Newest source: 2025-08-29, day precision Aliases: elitisms

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Elitism

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Taboo Is The River (2025-08-29, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Taboo Is The River; Kill The Cult Of The Self; China's Super Schools Kill The Curiosity They Sell.

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Key Notes

Lecture critique of modern literature.

diagnosis

Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.

Comparative diagnosis on 2014-06-19.

diagnosis

He describes China as a competitive elitist system that sorts students from day one through feeder schools into top universities.

Timestamped Evidence

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives..."

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"So the Monad in the conception of everything is the same, okay? It is a source of everything. Plato and Dante are proposing different..."

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs

Transcript

"Right? So Plato's like, you have to do calculus. Plato's like, and Dante's like, that's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

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

Transcript

"So arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

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

Transcript

"Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay. It's meant..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

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

Transcript

"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

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

Transcript

"It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Taboo Is The River

2025-08-29, day precision · claims, semantic-ref

Reading

The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.

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