One interpretation of the Hegseth/Trump Quantico lecture to the top US military is that they aimed to humiliate them, establish dominance.
"Hey boys, we've ordered you here today to make it clear that you're lackeys to an incompetent grifter-felon-child-abuser and a glory-hound drunkard army-reject."
#QuanticoLecture #Humiliation #ClassifyingTrump #Trump #Apolitical #Meritocracy
Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15443
#HackerNews #Elites #Meritocracy #MBA #Efficiency #Evidence #Education #Research
via #JustinFoster on #LinkedIn
In a real #meritocracy, cowards would get eaten.
In the US, they too often become people with power.
Cowardice rises to the top because our system rewards self-protection more than principle.
#Institutions select leaders who will preserve the hierarchy, not challenge it.
That requires cravenness mixed with timidity. Courage requires clarity. Courage requires risk. Courage requires consciousness.
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How parties recruit and select candidates 🧶
#meritocracy #classContempt #elites #oligarchy #yawn #bourgeoisie #parties #sociology #anthropology #mission #missions #apparatus #caucus #FrPol #masculinity
You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/starbase-musk-spacex-bezos-company-towns
Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted
#Starbase TX
Forest City, Malaysia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_City,_Johor
#capitalism #billionaires #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy #Musk #SpaceX
#DemocraticSocialism #RCP
Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/elon-musk-urges-brits-to-fight-back-against-their-political-enemies
“Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you,” he claimed in a Saturday speech to a far-right rally in London.
Existential threats: capitalism; billionaires; ... #Musk #plutocracy #oligarchy #meritocracy #autocracy
What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 14 September 2025 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-14-september-2025-a79190ceeeee #TalentManagement #DataStructures #Meritocracy #Patents #TeamFlow #WebDevelopment #Leadership #AI #tech
A Data-Driven Approach to Advancing #Meritocracy https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-data-driven-approach-to-advancing-meritocracy/
Thoughts on so-called #meritocracy in light of that #CEO who stole a #hat from a kid.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6tUSvQX/
Lucky for you I've coined yet another term... now before you get too excited, it is about meritocracy. The first simul-post on both the website: https://nonzerosum.games/effortocracy.html and the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/non-zero-sum-james/id1810797958?i=1000724095751 Choose whichever is least painful. #Meritocracy #Society #Policy #DEI
Lucky for you I've coined yet another term... now before you get too excited, it is about meritocracy. The first simul-post on both the website: nonzerosum.games/effortocracy... and the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/n... Choose whichever is least painful. #Meritocracy #Society #Policy #DEI
EFFORTOCRACY
So here is more for you @geriruth
At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:
"I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."
#teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers
"The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."
James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: https://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm
#obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers
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• develop your emotional intelligence so you can tell when you are hiding your emotions with the excuse that you are being "rational;"
• be transparent about #power, so that everyone understands who makes the final decision and/or how the final decision is made before you dive into the conflict.
via Tema #Okun https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/comfort--fear-of-conflict.html
#entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #racism #coloniality #meritocracy #antiRacism #alphabetMafia #rightToComfort #conflict #education #learning
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A story of my experience with direct giving https://nonzerosum.games/saidi.html #charity #effort #luck #chance #meritocracy #effectivealtruism #philosophy #globalvillage #duty #kindness #generosity #friendship
A story of my experience with direct giving https://nonzerosum.games/saidi.html #charity #effort #luck #chance #meritocracy #effectivealtruism #philosophy #globalvillage #duty #kindness #generosity #friendship
Sales are tanking, profits are falling and the brand has been irreparably damaged.
Seems reasonable.
#Meritocracy #TSLA #BillionaireScam
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/business-hbgr2piuz/-/a-e1TrDPXKSH6LWpq5VyD9GQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0
