On the aristocracy of merit
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- Or to put it more bluntly, picking someone from the Andover-Harvard-McKinsey assembly line isnât going to help you deal with Pasthun tribesmen in Afghanistan (or anything outside of the elite bubble really), because theyâre just hoop-jumping gunners with little in the way of civic virtue or intellectual breadth. To elevate a certain kind of analytical smarts, which happen to work well in a technologically-enabled society of consumerism and transactionalism, as the absolute measuring stick of merit is one-dimensional and, frankly, obtuse.