Excellent summary! Would be interested in a list of corollaries to this, i.e.:
a) If “condemned”X is necessary for “prestigious” Y, people with Y will mislead and lie to the publicabout how they achieved Y, despite wanting others to attain success at Y too. Furthermore, the narrative of their path to achieving Y without anything to do with X will be extremely uniform & coordinated despite any huge differences amongst people with Y. For example, some Y people have X, some don’t, some hope for others to attain Y, some don’t- but the “public narrative” all with Y tell will still end up extremely uniform.
This corollary was extremely unintuitive to me- outlined my experience in a “condemned X” which was often needed for “prestigious Y” if anyone is curious of how the corollary plays out in practice (in my direct comment to this post).
Excellent summary! Would be interested in a list of corollaries to this, i.e.:
a) If “condemned” X is necessary for “prestigious” Y, people with Y will mislead and lie to the public about how they achieved Y, despite wanting others to attain success at Y too. Furthermore, the narrative of their path to achieving Y without anything to do with X will be extremely uniform & coordinated despite any huge differences amongst people with Y. For example, some Y people have X, some don’t, some hope for others to attain Y, some don’t- but the “public narrative” all with Y tell will still end up extremely uniform.
This corollary was extremely unintuitive to me- outlined my experience in a “condemned X” which was often needed for “prestigious Y” if anyone is curious of how the corollary plays out in practice (in my direct comment to this post).