The mutually reinforcing nature of modern liberal institutions becomes a problem when one or two of them weaken dramatically.
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Isn't the problem the pursuit of recognition rather than the pursuit of excellence? What's been unmasked is the extent to which so many people are pursuing the former, and how working to that end has little relationship to pursuit of excellence. 1/
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I mean, hell, it all starts with this nonsense that to get into Harvard you have to be *recognized* as a striver, president of this and founder of that. There's no-one saying that to get into Harvard what it takes is to actually be the best at some field... //
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The mass-market is slowly getting digested by the long-tail, like a python swallowing a pig whole. Anyone wise isn't signing up to be the pig.
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What if it had ever been thus?
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Something only second-raters and has-beens pursue?
I mean even the Nobels are embattled.