A recurring anti-elite heuristic Greg invokes to judge who really holds power inside a system.
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find out who you're not allowed to criticize
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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"...know the old phrase find out who you're not allowed to criticize and you'll see who's really in charge. I think depending on where..."
"...the fact that he doesn't like me, the fact that he criticizes me, doesn't really impact the way I perceive him. Because what I..."
"Okay. So feel free to ask questions, feel free to criticize me, feel free to stop me. I'm not clear. All right. So, um,..."
"...too much. And I, and I have too many opinions. I criticize too much. Right? I'm only popular in the West because the Westerners..."
"...less likely to get visited by the police than if you criticize the rise of crime on social media."
"...valleys are decaying. And I thought, okay, well, they're going to criticize this. They're going to say that there shouldn't be some sort of..."
"...the huge tradition, not necessarily Marxist tradition, but conservative tradition to criticize these Calvinist foundations of the modern Anglo -Saxon capitalism, liberalism, individualism. And..."
"...is the First Amendment. The best thing is that anyone can criticize the president. And there's rigorous debate right now over this Iran war...."
"...leadership positions. So you will not hear me talk about or criticize the leadership of China. I'm not allowed to discuss that. I'm not..."
"...some of your rhetoric and they see that you don't just criticize Zionism or Israel, as many people legitimately do. You talk about this..."
"...cheering Mr. Trump on and quite literally lecturing anyone who will criticize it at this point. This is kind of interesting. I want to..."
"...play out here. I mean, forget like internet personalities, you know, criticize. I want to talk about there's thousands of people being killed in..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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