The best student and worst student are both likely to succeed for opposite reasons, but the worst student's adaptation, hard work, relationships, and team-building make him especially powerful.
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School
The second parenting difference is authority style: rich parents explain mistakes and treat the child as respected, while poor parents use threats and commands that teach fear of adults.
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The second parenting difference is authority style: rich parents explain mistakes and treat the child as respected, while poor parents use threats and commands that teach fear of adults.
He says school is supposed to train students for social function and creativity through literacy, core competencies, and lifelong learning.
School-taught materialism is a great lie because it treats the world as only what can be seen, observed, and measured while failing to answer consciousness, thought, ideas, communication, and human nature.
Movies, the internet, social media, school, and ChatGPT are described as technologies or institutions created to enslave the mind by making this reality seem like the only reality.
Freedom means awakening from a nightmare, seeing movies, AI, and school as prison or hell, looking inward, and reconnecting to God beyond phenomena.
Religions have preserved this secret for thousands of years, while schools, science, government, and powers that be suppress it because it threatens the false reality from which they derive power.
School and money desires are examples of manipulated freedom: students think they are freely pursuing college, money, and happiness, but have been tricked into creating the world desired by the powers.
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"...think about it. Right? If you're the best student in the school, you never have to reflect. You never have to, like, think about..."
"...on relationships. Okay? So, in China, there's a joke, right? In school, there are two people that everyone hates. Okay? The best student and..."
"High vocabulary, low vocabulary. When rich parents speak to the kids, rich parents will use higher vocabulary, longer sentences. Poor parents will just be..."
"...she must be afraid of adults. And this carries on into school, right? Because as a rich kid, you go to school and you..."
"...for a mate today i want to discuss the issue of school okay school so for the first few classes i'm going to use..."
"...which means reading and writing this is the primary purpose of school because in order to function in our society you need to be..."
"...learn for yourself so these are the three basic purposes of school and that's why you're at the school unfortunately what we know is..."
"...the secrets of what it means to be human. Now, in school, you've been taught that a person comes from evolution, right? We evolved..."
"How do we think? How do we have ideas? How do we communicate? you're not allowed to ask this question. And therefore, you're not..."
"...understand why we have the internet. Now we understand why the school wants you to love artificial intelligence. Because it should enslave you. Okay?..."
"They're the powers that be. You can also say they're demons. We don't know. Okay? But they're interested in fooling us into believing that..."
"...terrible nightmare, see everything that is around us, movies, the AI, school, as prison, as a, as hell. And then, you're able to look..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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