Jiang says the real puzzle of modern power is not just what top figures do, but why certain people are permitted to rise so seamlessly through elite systems in the first place.
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"not a viable business because it's social media right what's to stop me from starting another Facebook and then having people gravitate towards that..."
"Jacob Frank for these stories is able to benefit benefits itself into you okay so one example is Mark Zuckerberg then you look at..."
"at Stanford she got the Dean her Dean I've heard his name but but the Dean to back her uh startup and then she..."
"right yes that's right and they're built up by Mark Carney who's now the Prime Minister of Canada so it's a very strange story..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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