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Graduates

Turchin elite overproduction maps onto elite children and top graduates who want power but have too few places to go, producing social conflict, war, or revolution.

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Turchin interpretation and China example in the 2025-08-22 lecture.

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Turchin elite overproduction maps onto elite children and top graduates who want power but have too few places to go, producing social conflict, war, or revolution.

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Collapse Is Sudden

2025-08-22, day precision · Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse

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"...saying this is that in China today, there are too many graduates of Peking University, Beida, and Tsinghua University. Tsinghua, right? They want to..."

The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

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"...the reason is control. The reason is indoctrination. The people who graduate from the Ivy league, and I know cause I went to Yale..."

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

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"...interested in educating smart people, all you want to do is, graduate rich people, okay? So let's just say this guy doesn't exist. Then..."

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

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"...let in the child who comes from three generations of Harvard graduates, okay, and that's the majority of people who get into Harvard, and..."

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

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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..."

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

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"...step. And you would think that with the increase in college graduates, America would become a much more equal society. Right? Well, the opposite..."

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