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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 2

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    feels like our elite schools are optimized for producing eunuchshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1433512294240169985 …

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    the importance of a classical education becomes clear when one realizes that apparently none of our purported statesmen and generals have internalized the lessons of De Bello Gallico
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    • bronze age anon theutus John Appleseed Downzorz サメQCU name cannot be blank Statist_pig White Mountains Bro Golgi the Prince 👑
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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 2

        weird to have a historically bourgeois society feature this sort of thing i would have previously identified it as a feature of decadent autocracy maybe its more just a feature of government /scope/ than anything else? idk

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 2

        Red Rising might have been differently interesting if it had explored the proliferation of decadent Golds rather than focusing on the small subset of them who remained terrifyingly competent via bloody academic treatment guess Dune considered this as well hmmm

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      1. Dan B.‏ @t0themountain Sep 2
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        100% exactly right. Figurative, but also sometimes literal, eunuchs.

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      1. Squirrels in space‏ @squirrelspcsuit Sep 2
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        it is easier to optimize to a narrower band of proficiencies effective in status gameshttps://twitter.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1433196902950993920 …

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        Every time I see an anecdote like this I realize I'm still underestimating how much target school/elite culture relies on pattern matching over more robust understandings of building blocks
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      1. millennialMindset‏ @millenn27950823 Sep 2
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        controversial take: the surge in trans is just reinventing janissaries

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      2. Odalisk Flower‏ @falseworkidol Sep 2
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        i think to sustain extreme inequalities of power across generations, the ruling class has to deputize power to a bureaucratic class that is unable to reproduce power for itself

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      3. Odalisk Flower‏ @falseworkidol Sep 2
        Replying to @falseworkidol @eigenrobot

        as chinese dynasties became entrenched, they increasingly relied on eunuchs as a way to keep centralized power out of the hands of the aristocracy (distant relatives of the imperial clan)

        0 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
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      2. Nebula Of City‏ @NebulaOfCity Sep 2
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        Eunuchs always come to commit great acts of cruelty at the end of an age.

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 2
        Replying to @NebulaOfCity

        not themselves of course

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      2. The Mall Krampus‏ @cakotz Sep 2
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        I remember the olden days where the internet in the freshmen boys’ dorm became functionally unusable after midnight due to all the anime torrenting and porn

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