Which is worse: the reproduction of hierarchy with, or without, the self-congratulatory pretense of meritocracy?
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Replying to @Vermeullarmine
The new class has to maintain the fiction that its power rests on intelligence alone. Hence it has little sense of... obligation to live up to responsibilities inherited from the past. It thinks of itself as a self-made elite owing its privileges exclusively to its own efforts.
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Christopher Lasch, Revolt of the Elites
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