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12 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: bone, bones, skull-and-bone, skull-bone, skull-bones

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Skull and Bones

Yale senior society used as Jiang’s prime example of elite secret-social networks.

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Skull and Bones

Glossary

Yale senior society used as Jiang’s prime example of elite secret-social networks.

Lecture claim on 2025-09-12.

model

Harvard alone is not enough; elite reproduction also runs through senior clubs and secret societies such as Porcellian, Ivy Club, and Skull and Bones.

Timestamped Evidence

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

Transcript

"...The clubs that everyone wants to join. At Yale, it's Skull and Bones. Okay? Skull and Bones is the most famous college secret society...."

The Poem That Makes a Robot

2026-03-25, day precision · Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire

Transcript

"...our peoples. Ever. No Pax Apis. Come rising up from my bones, you avengers still unknown, to stalk those Trojan settlers, hunt with fire..."

The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

Transcript

"They're both Yale Skull and Bones. Okay? So it's a rigged game. Barack Obama, okay? Barack Obama, Columbia, went to Harvard Law School, but..."

The Nation Is The New God

2025-06-05, day precision · Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...blow. It will also take hold of our national body's inner bones and join them together so that they might gloriously exist in a..."

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · glossary, claims

Reading

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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