Status Updates From Where the Wasteland Ends

"Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which winnows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”

"Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which windows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”

"There are those who continue to hope that, in time, everything--politics, ethics, all--can be trapped in the quantitative net... if only its mesh might be made sufficiently fine."