>I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word, but the children of the wealthy and privileged are taking full advantage of meritocracy's retreat. I'

>I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word, but the children of the wealthy and privileged are taking full advantage of meritocracy's retreat. I'm pretty surprised how people fail to notice the similarities between meritocracy and aristocracy. I don't think it's an obscure fact that aristocracy is meant to be "the rule of the best or the fittest"; and it's so obvious that it failed and degenerated to a hereditary mess that we invented a different word to express the same idea. Hey, maybe this time will be different and we will get it right, but I don't think mocking those who are skeptics of the term and try to draw attention to the ideological usage will help us.