{"id":13576,"date":"2018-02-28T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2018-02-28T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:14:45","slug":"meritocracy-vs-egalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=13576","title":{"rendered":"Meritocracy vs Egalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ember19412\" class=\"feed-shared-update__description feed-shared-inline-show-more-text feed-shared-inline-show-more-text--expanded ember-view\">\n<p id=\"ember19413\" class=\"Sans-15px-black-70% feed-shared-main-content ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"ember19415\" class=\"ember-view\">&#8220;Is Britain a meritocracy: everyone with skill and imagination may aspire to reach the highest level?&#8221; Or after years of complacency are we drifting into mediocracy&#8230; putting our global competitiveness at risk? In a mediocracy, real cultural progress is impossible because it requires conditions that are incompatible with a commitment to egalitarianism. There is no room for genuine cultural innovators, because one cannot permit any individual to think they are special. Nevertheless, mediocracy maintains a cultural elite, to validate its ersatz culture and to protect it from criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feed-shared-update__social-info\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is Britain a meritocracy: everyone with skill and imagination may  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}