Re:Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)
by rjbond3rd on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:15PM
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From the article: "A pure meritocracy, we'd discovered, can only promote; it can't legitimize."
He was an outsider who became an insider, only to discover there was another elite (social, economic, political) level that he feared he'd never crack.
Eventually, he's bed-ridden with a cold, and for the first time, actually reads and gets lost in literary works (whereas academia had become a "scene" too focused on abstract literary criticism).
He was an outsider who became an insider, only to discover there was another elite (social, economic, political) level that he feared he'd never crack.
Eventually, he's bed-ridden with a cold, and for the first time, actually reads and gets lost in literary works (whereas academia had become a "scene" too focused on abstract literary criticism).