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Canada's heaven-like security and wealth should have produced eudaimonia and creativity, but Jiang says Canadians instead chose complacency and mediocrity.
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Mediocrity
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Jiang summarizes Tocqueville’s fear as the world becoming atomized, uniform, and mediocre under American democratic middle-class dominance.
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Jiang says the deepest shock of the Epstein files is the discovery that elites are not special, brilliant, or moral but are mostly ordinary beneficiaries of inherited power.
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Jiang says Yale itself taught him that elite institutions are not heavens of brilliance but enlarged versions of ordinary mediocrity with better birth advantages.
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"Yeah. So I think the greatest shock of Epstein Files is people recognize that the elite, they're not special. They're not smarter. They're not..."
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"And so my teachers the word they used for me is ambitious. I'm an ambitious individual and that's essentially a curse word in Canada...."
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"In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the..."
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"In 1835 he publishes Democracy in America. And he's trying to explain why is it that American democracy works? And why is it destined..."
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"Atomized just means that we live in our own world than ourselves. Uniform means everyone thinks the same way and mediocre means that well..."
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"...I will say Ivy League is that it's led to tremendous mediocrity among the American elite. You look at people like Barack Obama and..."
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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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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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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