Holistic Admissions: Creating Secrecy and Discretion to Control Elite Access
Harvard developed holistic admissions in the early 20th century when SAT scholarship programs threatened to flood the university with academically excellent Jewish students. Alumni whose children suddenly faced academic competition demanded a system preserving their access while maintaining Harvard’s claim to meritocracy.
Harvard as Venture Capital: Seeking Billion-Dollar Returns Over Solid Success
Elite universities, particularly Harvard, function as venture capital firms seeking world-changing individuals rather than solid achievers. Admissions officers explicitly evaluate applicants as investment opportunities.
Dissociative Personality Disorder: Trauma as Competitive Advantage in Elite Admissions
Elite admissions officers actively seek applicants exhibiting dissociative personality disorder characteristics: desperation, insecurity, and willingness to transgress moral boundaries. The speaker’s own Yale admission exemplified this, selected precisely because his application revealed trauma.
The Hunger Games: How Elite Universities Mass-Produce Insecurity and Trauma
Yale, Harvard, and Princeton operate as relentless competition environments where students selected partly for pre-existing trauma face intensified psychological pressure. The meritocracy not only seeks traumatized individuals but actively traumatizes the world through its competitive structure.
Ivy League Dominance: How Elite Universities Captured American Power Structures
Harvard and Ivy League graduates dominate every American power institution. A Nature study revealed that Harvard appears everywhere in American elite positions—from generals and admirals to philosophers, billionaires, Pulitzer Prize winners, Fortune 500 CEOs, federal judges, and senators. Harvard graduates constitute 7% of all Americans worth over $100 million.
Moral Hazard for Elites: How the 2008 Crisis Revealed Protected Class Corruption
Barack Obama’s economic team—Larry Summers (Harvard graduate and former Harvard president) and Tim Geithner (Dartmouth graduate)—were Wall Street friends who created the 2008 financial crisis, then were appointed to resolve it. Obama promised hope and change to millions after the economy collapsed, then immediately betrayed them.
Soulless Elite: How Meritocracy Produces Leaders Without Ideas or Principles
Barack Obama, JD Vance, and Johnny Kim exemplify soulless elite leadership—individuals with extraordinary achievements but no original ideas or authentic principles. Obama promised hope and change, then immediately betrayed supporters. Vance called Trump a fascist, then called him the greatest. These are puppets telling people what they want to hear.
Death of Learning: How Meritocracy Destroyed Education by Making Failure Unacceptable
Pre-meritocracy education valued open-mindedness, failure, reflection, and resilience. Students learned through mistakes. Meritocracy replaced learning with grade obsession, destroying education for everyone—especially poor students who need genuine skill development, not credentialing, to succeed.