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Jiang says a Guardian article shows Epstein helped finance Bitcoin and uses a 2004 Harvard dinner with Larry Summers and Steven Pinker as evidence that academia is a networking and legitimation apparatus for power.
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Harvard
American admissions is uniquely complicated because Harvard turned selection away from exams alone and toward a power-preserving system of essays, recommendations, activities, and moral self-presentation.
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American admissions is uniquely complicated because Harvard turned selection away from exams alone and toward a power-preserving system of essays, recommendations, activities, and moral self-presentation.
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Harvard is interested less in academics than in institutional power, so “best” means most likely to succeed publicly rather than smartest.
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The meritocracy has conquered the world from Harvard outward, including China, which is why Jiang says the world is so distorted.
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Modern meritocracy succeeded for Harvard by making admission scarce, growing its endowment, producing billionaires, and placing Harvard/Ivy graduates throughout the American elite.
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Harvard wants applicants to perform mutually incompatible identities: selfless passion, billionaire ambition, and absolute loyalty to Harvard.
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"...want to show you this picture. This happened in 2004 at Harvard, okay? This is Larry Summers, who is the president of Harvard University...."
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"No, it's not. It's about protecting and justifying the society. It's not just coal. It's about providing a network for powerful people to meet..."
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"So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you why America has the world's most complicated admissions system...."
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"Harvard's not interested in academics, it's interested in power. Therefore, it must ensure that the people who come to Harvard are the ones who..."
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"...you, all right? And the system was created to ensure that Harvard is able to recruit the best students in the world. But what's..."
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"...conquered the world. It started in America. It actually started at Harvard, but now it's conquered the entire world. And that's why the world..."
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"Okay? So, in the year 1940, 90 % of applicants to Harvard got accepted. Now, it's gone way down to 5%. Okay? Stanford is..."
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"...what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay? Okay. $30 million. Still, Harvard is number one. Okay? All right? So their graduates are the most..."
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"...federal judges, senators. Okay? They're everywhere. And that's the power of Harvard. This is a, this is a portion of, of Harvard graduates compared..."
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"But what's interesting is Harvard wants that, okay? So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will..."
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"...you'd be shocked by the level of education at Yale and Harvard, you'd be like, oh my God, these are the smartest people in..."
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"...an email saying, hey, let me tell you something really funny. Harvard is saying that when Hitler was poor, he lived in a home,..."
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Jiang turns the Epstein files into a theory of war: social reality is a cave, the dollar is a consciousness trap, empire survives by looking invincible, and the exposed parasite network is already fighting...
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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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