The Case for Meritocracy Quotes

“Isn’t it time we left behind the Ship of Fools, and embarked instead on the Ship of Geniuses? What is the Star Trek vision of the future if not a depiction of a world ruled by meritocrats? You wouldn’t let the religious, the violent, or the rich onboard a starship. With them in your crew, you’d never reach your destination. You’d go round and round in circles, or crash. If humanity wants to arrive at the gates of heaven, only the smartest humans can build the sleek vessels to take us there. Prayer, meditation and the super rich didn’t land men on the moon... incredibly smart humans did, using reason, logic, technology, engineering, science and mathematics. These are all the subjects most shunned by average people. And that’s exactly the human tragedy.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Meritocracy is a sacred cause, not profane. It is numinous. Meritocracy is about the glory and highest aspirations of the human race, not about letting people run around doing their own thing regardless of everyone else, and fretting over which hamburger to choose. If that’s all you want from life, you might as well go and live in the jungle.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that’s not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“If you have no vision of humans evolving into gods – of understanding and mastering the deepest secrets of existence – you cannot be a meritocrat. We are all about metamorphosis and transformation, not about stasis, not about a pathetic notion of humans being nothing more than selfish little units free from government interference. What is glorious and visionary about humans being left alone to pursue their selfish little schemes in their selfish little ways... about “Game Theory” humanity?”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“It has been said that man was made in the image of God. We want “God” to be made in the image of man: fully actualised man. It’s time for HyperHumanity.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Positive liberty is about being free for something, i.e. your freedom is not expressed in opposition to the potential constraints and restraints placed on you by others, but, rather, is expressed through cooperation with others in order to produce a better humanity and better world. In other words, negative liberty is about “Leave me alone to pursue my selfish life in my own selfish way, according to my own selfish and narcissistic beliefs”, while positive liberty is about “Let’s find the ways through which we can make life better for us all.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Ten percent is the golden number – the number that changes the world. Be part of that ten percent. Be a hero. Let future generations talk about you”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Democracy” literally means “people power” (demos – people; kratos = power). It was designed to stop rule by the rich elite. Look at“democratic” America. Who runs it? The rich elite – the top 1%!!! Why haven’t the dumb “democrats” worked out that the elite have conned them yet again?!”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“So, will you be one of the ten percent who will change the world? Be a hero. It’s time to make your stand in life. It’s time for you to be an agent of change. It’s time for you to make a difference.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Meritocracy is based on the absolute destruction of the rigged race of life, via the introduction of 100% inheritance tax, i.e. an overwhelming advantage can no longer be passed on by rich parents to their children. All children, no matter the wealth of their parents, must begin at the same starting line as everyone else. No parent can rig the race. The 1% can no longer dictate the outcome of the race”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“Meritocracy is about blending Plato’s Republic with Rousseau’s Social Contract, and reflecting the Hegelian dialectic and Pythagorean-Leibnizian logic and rationalism, combined with the artistic and spiritual sensibility of Goethe. It’s about the fierce commitment to political justice reflected by Adam Weishaupt, Thomas Jefferson and the two great Jacobins Robespierre and SaintJust. It’s about the dynamism and Logos of Heraclitus. It’s about the shamanism of Empedocles and his two dialectical cosmic forces of attraction and repulsion: Love (Philia) and Strife (Neikos). It’s about the wisdom of Solomon, and the divine intuition and magic of Simon
Magus. And it’s about the celebration of Hypatia, the heroic symbol of martyred Reason, feminism and classical paganism.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy