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Jiang’s metaphor for Yale as relentless zero-sum competition after admission.
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Hunger Games
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...thing happening to us all when we engage with fiction like Hunger Games or Squid Games or any of these other, you know, sci..."
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Yale functions as the Hunger Games: a zero-sum competition among the most competitive people in the world, extending through classes, clubs, secret societies, graduate school, and scholarships.
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Jiang says the Ivy League helped create a traumatizing 'Hunger Games' education system in which elite schools only need a tiny number of spectacular winners and treat the rest as disposable tools.
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"...go over the list. Okay. First one they've created is this Hunger Games education system that's in America today. I mean, it's traumatizing young..."
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"...is that, when you get into Yale, Yale is actually the Hunger Games."
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"Have you read the book, The Hunger Games? It is a relentless competition. Because once you're in Yale, you're still competing. Okay? But now..."
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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..."
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"...thing happening to us all when we engage with fiction like Hunger Games or Squid Games or any of these other, you know, sci..."
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"But it's really the Hunger Games. You go there, from day one, they expect you to compete against your classmates. Because Yale graduates 1,500..."
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"...and trump's trademark line is you're fired so it's like the hunger games right you got this 40 four -star general they're all invested..."
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"...train you for Yale. So it's also a competition, also a Hunger Games, okay? To train for high school, your parents have to have..."
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"...that they get into Yale, so they can compete in the Hunger Games, so they can go on in life. And... Compete some more,..."
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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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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