“The ideology of meritocracy, though, depends on the fiction that there are no meaningful differences, in terms of nature or nurture, among us, and that we’re all starting from the same place, and have the capacities to excel equally, no matter what.”
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Rod Dreher » Meritocracy and the guilty lie
A stubborn insistence on the existence (or desirability) of meritocracy is probably a symptom of either a bad imagination or actual greed.
