His writing reminds me of assignments in school where I had to write an essay with a minimum number of words, 1000 words for example. Since I did not enjoy writing assignments, and because I did not have anything worthwhile to say, and because I suck at writing, I would break out the thesaurus and try to string together 1000 words with only the barest hint of an underlying theme or topic, all the while saying absolutely nothing of substance.
At least I knew I had nothing worthwhile to say. This guy really thinks he has something substantial here, and proceeds to bloviate over several long essays about it. Like you said, it's just a strawman attack on meritocracy.
What I don't get is that there are so many others heaping praise on him for this nonsense. It's just a bunch of mindless NPCs congratulating eachother on what wonderful smart-boys they are.
Johann is making the mistake of embracing the enemy's definitions.
His take on meritocracy is just textbook credentialism.
He mistakes the assigned middle managers of evil for "elites" and builds an entire solopsistic thesis around this error, baffling.
His writing reminds me of assignments in school where I had to write an essay with a minimum number of words, 1000 words for example. Since I did not enjoy writing assignments, and because I did not have anything worthwhile to say, and because I suck at writing, I would break out the thesaurus and try to string together 1000 words with only the barest hint of an underlying theme or topic, all the while saying absolutely nothing of substance.
At least I knew I had nothing worthwhile to say. This guy really thinks he has something substantial here, and proceeds to bloviate over several long essays about it. Like you said, it's just a strawman attack on meritocracy.
What I don't get is that there are so many others heaping praise on him for this nonsense. It's just a bunch of mindless NPCs congratulating eachother on what wonderful smart-boys they are.
I'm going to use this excellent comment as the basis for the next missive at this metrosexual wanna-be. Thank you.