I've been mulling how modern belief in meritocracy paralleled belief in geomancy in the Chinese countryside (basically: if you were buried in the "right" spot, your descendants would prosper...) but I'm not well-educated enough to write much more on it
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needless to say, the rich got their prime pick of burial locations, thus justifying their wealth to themselves & others
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A comparison of meritocracy to geomancy (with meritocracy the worse for it) would be a fantabulous essay you should go for it!
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You should dip into Frazer's Golden Bough aka sympathetic magic.
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