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When the Term Meritocracy was Coined in 1958, it was in a Dystopian Satire

posted by n1 on Saturday June 18 2016, @06:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-my-day-we-called-it-social-darwinism dept.

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When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term meritocracy in 1958, it was in a dystopian satire. At the time, the world he imagined, in which intelligence fully determined who thrived and who languished, was understood to be predatory, pathological, far-fetched.

Today, however, we’ve almost finished installing such a system, and we have embraced the idea of a meritocracy with few reservations, even treating it as virtuous. That can’t be right. Smart people should feel entitled to make the most of their gift. But they should not reshape society so as to instate giftedness as a universal yardstick of human worth.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2016, @08:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2016, @08:54AM (#364243)

    Don't know who you are, you seem to think I do or ever remember conversing with whomever you are, however I wouldn't "take on a 6 foot steel toed dyke" (btw: you're short, cuntlet). I would just shoot whomever in the back until whomever was dead.

    Those women who are enemies of the God of Deuteronomy are not to be afforded respect.
    Just execution.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 23 2016, @04:22PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday June 23 2016, @04:22PM (#364397) Journal

    You want my last medical records? 183cm on the dot, 75kg (yes, I could stand to drop a few of those...it's happening, give it a couple months). I'm taller than most men and heavier than around a third of them, partly because my second job involves a lot of moving boxes.

    So, Mikee, am I to assume that by the above post you are indeed threatening me with death by gunshot? Should I find out where you work and send your employer all the screencaptures of your behavior I've been saving up? :) If you wanna talk "rape2own" just wait till you end up in prison!

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...