The bourgeoisie naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best
- The Communist Manifesto
thinking about how it's pretty common to critique the total failure of systems that are naïvely described as "merotocratic" to actually elevate the most meritorious people, when in fact the whole idea of meritocracy is in fact born of the false belief that people can have an absolute "merit" (let alone that it determines how much power they should be able to exert)
