The mediocre shall inherit the earth...
...by definition 

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Imagine if modern metallurgy were still being conducted using alchemical transmutation to gold narratives. Alchemy is bildungsromans for base metals. Horacio Alger metallurgy. Or if astronomy were forced to use the language of astrology. Or mathematics numerology.
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One way to define mediocrity is: there may still be an aspirational self, but the gap between who you are and the “cheat” version of the aspirational self is zero.
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is history... mediocre?
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Of course, by definition. The definition of reproductive success for an exceptional trait is that it becomes ubiquitously distributed and therefore mostly mediocre by definition. The human gene pool is 10% ersatz genghis khan for example.
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