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• danielweber 12y ago
  It's amazing how some phrases that start out as completely negative eventually become valid excuses. "Best and Brightest" is another phrase that took a weird turn. The original [1] use from the 1970s was entirely negative but people use it unironically these days. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22best+and+brightest%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20best%20and%20brightest%20%22%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22best+and+br...
  • stephencanon 12y ago
    "Meritocracy" will always be my favorite.