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Freedom begins when one accepts enslavement and refuses it, but most people cannot do this because they have been brainwashed to treat visible reality as real.
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Freedom begins when one accepts enslavement and refuses it, but most people cannot do this because they have been brainwashed to treat visible reality as real.
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Real success before meritocracy depended on open-mindedness, failure, reflection, resilience, learning, and time for oneself; grade competition destroys each of those conditions.
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For poor students without family power, Yale or Harvard can be destructive because the system trains arrogance, utilitarian calculation, narrowness, fear of failure, and inability to learn deeply.
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Jiang extends the Tower of Babel comparison by saying the pyramid is a tower-like attempt to reach God that fails and invites divine mockery and punishment.
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"That's what my mother really wants. You've been tricked. Okay. That's how the world works. So, it's really easy. Just say to yourself I'm..."
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"You fear being laughed at. That's why you want money. That's what you wanna do while in school. Once you accept that, then you..."
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"...questions, learn from other people. Okay? And what people recognized was failure is the best teacher. Why? Because failure forces reflection. Right? And resilience,..."
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"...okay? And to get good grades, you cannot fail, you understand? Failure now is a problem. If you fail a class, you may learn..."
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"So it's a really bad system, because if you're like me, okay, you're just a normal person, your family's not rich or powerful, and..."
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"...don't have the resilience. They're not open -minded. They don't accept failure. They're not committed to learning. They're only committed to success, okay? So..."
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"And you can argue that that's what the pyramid is. And God laughs at them and mocks them. And they never succeed. And then..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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