One problem with standing up straight with your shoulders back is that it creates too much conflict. There is a hidden moralistic value in the statement which is that all humans should strive to be at the top of the hierarchy. Whether it is the best thing for them. What will happen with such an indoctrination is that when most of the people who have been indoctrinated to expect to be at the top invariably come up short, it creates in them a sense of resentment and dissatisfaction. To claim that western civilization is purely build upon the pillars of classical liberalism and meritocracy and that it reflects the biological structure the best is incomplete. This is the same mistake that Marx makes. He distilled the nature of Man to a struggle between classes of people. Here Man is distilled as a struggle of individuals to realize his merits. Humanity consists of multiple structures (of power and otherwise) that overlap, interact, cooperate and fight with each other. The meritocratic power and class struggle are a part of the whole.
Other structures that cannot be excluded in the discussion is religion and spirituality.
Sunday, 20 May 2018
The alt right and meritocracy
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