Smersonish, this morning on CNN, interviewed author Michael
Sandel, from Harvard as professor at Government Theory, his new book “The
Tyranny of Merit: What Becomes of the Common Good?”, from Farrar, Straus and Girroux, September 15, 2020, 288 pages.
Meritocracy has a dark side, in that it tends to
create a view of people as winners and losers, with success as always their own
doing, a measure of worthiness.
The opposite of this idea would seem to be critical
theory, especially critical race theory.
In a personal sense, it leads to a desire to avoid
people who fail personally as being less morally “worthy”. If applied by everybody this would wind up with
fascism.
This becomes important in socialization of some edgy
people, like me, who may not find a point in joining in with (other) people who
claim to be “oppressed”.
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