The House of Lords was unironically a meritocratic institution

meh 19th in certain cases but yeah

everyone

go to sleep

ples ly

Meh meritocracy big gay

American detected

Yup

better meritocracy than popularity

No, putting the best of your people in charge is a really reasonable and honourable thing to do

“The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.”

Men like Wellesley did great things for their nation and made great political leaders and they were enfranchised with that power on account of their good character and qualities

Meritocracy is only real behind the scenes

Today

“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”

Not always true

Modern capitalist america literally has less social mobility than victorian england according to gregory clark

@Medman i dont wanna

In-group preference > meritocracy

Always

You can have both

Especially if you foster your people to be meritous

The in group will always be relative though

Which you should, that's far more important than ethnocentrism

Make your people worthy of your care rather than caring for them because they're your people

and be someone worth caring about yourself

Ofc

Westerners have out-group preference

You make the moral decision to care for someone before you even begin a pros/cons lost

I have my beliefs because I love my people, not because they deserve it
Because right now they surely don't

#NotAllWesterners

Kek

Social status is mostly genetic so meritocracy doesn't even mean what most people think it would mean (if you buy into gregory clark)

I'm always going to be ethnocentric in action and thought but it's really hard to give a fuck about people who reach new depths of degeneracy at daily intervals

Dr Dutton also has research on dysgenic qualities of meritocracy

and I realise that most of the reason I care about them is based on what they once were and not what they are and also because its helpful for me for them to be in a good condition

But if they're not in a good condition its bad for me and my descendants to even be associated with them

Imagine raising your children in any major European city today

Dutton's wife is a based Karelian

The selfish gene
Hmm

Everything is a bit selfish