| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This is Christopher Lasch???s lament in ???The Revolt of the Elites??? -- that meritocracy co-opts people who might otherwise become its critics, sapping local communities of their intellectual vitality and preventing any kind of rival power centers from emerging.The obvious response to any critique of meritocracy is that, like democracy, it???s the worst system except for all the others that have
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