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"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."
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"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.”
— May 05, 2014 06:45PM
Crystal
is on page 204 of 492
"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.”
— May 05, 2014 06:44PM
