tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post6583690437046611625..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: The Problem Isn't the 'Merit,' It's the 'Ocracy'T. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-52788977534399350182020-01-02T23:27:33.745-08:002020-01-02T23:27:33.745-08:00I've read or listened to a lot of anti-meritoc...I've read or listened to a lot of anti-meritocracy arguments in the past few years, this is the closest I've come to being persuaded so thank you for that- I mostly support this blog to hear compelling arguments for things I don't want to believe.Jim from BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01756441051221013045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-42151839229801759022019-12-31T12:11:44.720-08:002019-12-31T12:11:44.720-08:00Why does some WASP heyday literature explicitly sh...Why does some WASP heyday literature explicitly show non-regional association of elites with WASP institutions (e.g. native Mississippian elite Quentin Compson attending Harvard in The Sound and The Fury)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-6567363613241840282019-12-31T08:09:48.470-08:002019-12-31T08:09:48.470-08:00"did" seems like a typo: Texas' best..."did" seems like a typo: Texas' best and brightest did strive to get into Harvard—they strove to get into Baylor.Randall Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799701035060061748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-46052631518834578512019-12-30T22:52:59.324-08:002019-12-30T22:52:59.324-08:00I cannot help but think of the Chinese system of c...I cannot help but think of the Chinese system of constant relocation of Party members (and really--isn't the American upper-middle-class The Party, in a sense?) so that a promising party chief in a small city in Sichuan will get promoted to chief in Hefei, and then to Shanghai, to reduce regional factionalism. <br /><br />Perhaps the problem is that the US has the worst of both worlds. The Winthrop Wickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12451338396608983530noreply@blogger.com