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A worldview that locates all problems inside the individual prevents collective identification and collective action.
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Powerlessness
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "if you want to make it through you will okay a lot of it is pure will um and unfortunately um what we've been..."
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Jiang says that making it through the coming age depends heavily on will and on rejecting the training that teaches people they are powerless.
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"if you want to make it through you will okay a lot of it is pure will um and unfortunately um what we've been..."
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"...benefits, but what's another benefit? Okay. The other benefit is this. Powerlessness. It makes you powerless. Why? This system is designed to make you..."
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"So the problem with number two is you are incapable of collective action because you think all sorts of your problems will change the..."
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"...also alienation alienation just means a sense of power layer of powerlessness lessness okay you lack agency these changes are happening so fast and..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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