The Rise of the Meritocracy

So first, let's discuss the warning that nobody kept.

In 1958, a British sociologist named Michael Young wrote a book called The Rise of Meritocracy.

He invented the word, and before Young, it did not really exist, and he did not invent it as a compliment.

The book is a satire written as a history from the year 2034, looking back at a Britain that had recognized itself or reorganized itself entirely around intelligence and effort.

Jung called this quality merit and he built in fiction the society that would result from selecting people by it and nothing else.

He did not write a utopia.