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Taylor R Campbell> Sustaining the American narrative of meritocracy requires a whole culture industry, novels and later movies that constitute a kind of state religion for Americans…
It's funny you use the word ‘meritocracy’, because the word was _invented_ to satirize the myth that the British aristocracy deluded themselves into believing to feel better about corrupt dynasties of wealth and power.
But today the word is taken at face value, and the satire has been lost.
@riastradh Yes indeed. In fact I am a visiting professor at the open university which was founded by the same person