Incompetocracy
26th July 2023
The idea is that the smartest kids are admitted to the best schools, where they’re taught by the top minds in the sciences, philosophy, law, medicine, and the arts. They therefore possess both the highest degree of natural aptitude, and have been provided with the best possible training, meaning that they are naturally the most suited to take society’s reins.
What universities really sell isn’t an education: it’s the credential.
Credentials are meant to serve a crucial social function. They’re supposed to be a guarantee that a potential employee or professional has mastered the skills for which his services are being retained.
At some point over the last generation, the ruling class shifted its emphasis from competence to ideological loyalty.