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How do you define meritocracy? Ideas are infectious and they clearly do not need truthful or academic merit to spread like wildfire.
by Dumblydorr 7y ago
How do you define meritocracy? Ideas are infectious and they clearly do not need truthful or academic merit to spread like wildfire.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoThey don't necessarily. But historically, allowing ideas to spread like wildfire seems like it's been a lot more effective at reaching the truth than having the authorities decide what's true and only let true things spread.
- vkou 7y agoTautalogically, in the same sham way that we generally define meritocracy. "These ideas won, because, clearly, they are the best." "These people are successful, because, clearly, they are the best."
- sjg007 7y agoThis is insightful. The other part is that some ideas matter and most don’t.
- cheriot 7y agoMeritocracy requires some sort of result that holds an idea up against reality. The scientific community uses experimentation and replication of successful results. The economy uses "creative destruction" to a similar end. People believing an idea doesn't add to its merit.