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Obama, JD Vance, and Johnny Kim are used as examples of elite success that Jiang reads as trauma-driven, highly adaptable, and soulless rather than principled.
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Soulless Elite
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Key Notes
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Obama is Jiang’s closing example of the elite actor: promising hope and change, then dropping the promise once in power and returning to it only when electorally useful.
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"Okay? So thank Obama for Donald Trump. Without Obama, there would be no Donald Trump. Okay. So it's not just Barack Obama. It's a..."
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"All they know is a chief. Okay? So another example of this, this man's name is Johnny Kim. Okay? And he'll probably run for..."
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"Okay? So he has dissociative personality disorder. And, in fact, if you look at most of these really successful people, they do have dissociative..."
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"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."
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"...selects for traumatized and insecure individuals for power resulting in a soulless elite so as you can see it's pretty wide reaching and you're..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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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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