feels like our elite schools are optimized for producing eunuchshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1433512294240169985 …
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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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one weird trick to solve elite overproduction
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Technology, actually. People always thinking school in 1917 is like now or something
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if you think about how many major advances in the country relied on people under minimal oversight with absurd self-confidence barging their way into things (Matthew Perry opening Japan, the frontier in general), it's hard to imagine that replicating now (for better or worse)
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Consider instead that our current period has more in common with decadent autocracies than you may previously have believed
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