Re: Connect the dots

moodyguppy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:11:05 GMT

If you think the US has problems with maintaining a viable meritocracy... then go visit... anyplace else on earth. Across the UK, China, Singapore, India, Switzerland or South Africa (and I have been to all these places on business) their claims to meritocracy are more dubious than ours.

Whatever our troubles with meritocracy in the USA, and they are many, we are still semi-sighted in the land of the mostly blind.

Connect the dots

morganja — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:36:54 GMT

All these hyper-college educated people swallow this meritocracy myth without even the smallest skepticism. Think of the thousands upon thousands of stupid studies published by academics on subjects entirely useless. Now how many studies have been done that question the meritocratic myth that underpins most of our political and economic decisions?

This article is just another fleck of evidence in a tower built of flecks that irrevocably refutes this myth to any who choose to look.

What does it mean to the future of our nation, faced with increasingly global competition, if we are not a meritocracy? We got to be the most powerful country on earth because we were relatively more meritocratic than all other countries. What happens when we aren't anymore?

An entire system built on corruption, nepotism and false pretenses is a system ripe for collapse. History is accelerating. We need to take a long, hard look at what we really are and decide whether we want to remain the strongest nation in the world, or just slide back into the pack and let the dreams this country was founded on fade to dust.

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Re: Connect the dots

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