# On the aristocracy of merit

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Antonio García Martínez]]
- Full Title: On the aristocracy of merit
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/on-the-aristocracy-of-merit

## Highlights
- Or to put it more bluntly, picking someone from the Andover-Harvard-McKinsey assembly line isn’t going to help you deal with Pasthun tribesmen in Afghanistan (or anything outside of the elite bubble really), because they’re just hoop-jumping gunners with little in the way of civic virtue or intellectual breadth. To elevate a certain kind of analytical smarts, which happen to work well in a technologically-enabled society of consumerism and transactionalism, as the absolute measuring stick of merit is one-dimensional and, frankly, obtuse.