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Left implicit is that those at the bottom have failed to be deserving.

Inequality, in fact, is a logical outcome of meritocracy. What the education system does when it selects, sorts and hierarchises, and when it gives its stamp of approval to those 'at the top', is that it renders those who succeed through the system as legitimately deserving.

"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed... And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilisations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor... would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."

"Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster."