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Settling for something that was not quite your first choice if life seems weak willed. Somewhere surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise was your fault.

People behave with such conscious and unconscious dishonesty all the time.

Meritocratic hubris reflects the tendency of winners to inhale too deeply of their success, to forget the luck and good fortune that helped them on their way. It is the smug conviction of those who land on top that they deserve their fate, and that those on the bottom deserve theirs, too. This attitude is the moral companion of technocratic politics.