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Every single element of this story is so far outside my experience that I have no idea what to think of it. Hours long summer seminars with a college professor? One who hosts them at his home and provides lunch?

17 year olds plotting a mutiny is the only thing in this that I can relate to.

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As he discuses, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluride_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluride_Association_Summer_P... is far outside pretty much everyone's experience. (I applied as a kid, having no idea what it was, because they mailed me a form; after reading OP, it seems like a good thing that I neither knew what I was missing nor how hard it was to get in.)

How did this get coopted to a black studies association? Going back 30-40 years we see classical studies, like "Ethics and Society in the Ancient(?) World".

First slowly and then quickly

I suspect that the online conventions did not allow for nuance in discussions, and the politically correct faction took over

It was the most astounding intellectual experience. You have no idea. 250 pages of reading per night, two college professors per seminar (two of whom are now quite famous). The students were genuinely diverse and formed their own community.

The house is more like a frat house- two floors of common spaces including the seminar rooms, a commercial kitchen etc and two floors of bedrooms

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