Post by account_disabled on Feb 16, 2024 20:15:35 GMT -8
They Are Supposed to Have Earned Their Positions Through Intelligence Talent and Above All Hard Work. They Deserve Their Social Status as Well as Their High Income. Those at the Other End of the Social Scale Meanwhile Are Considered Undeserving of Anything Except Their Destiny. They Are Duly Confined to the Lower End of the Income Scale and to the Least Social Prestige. The American Philosopher Michael Sandel Summarizes It in the Tyranny of Merit. What Has Become of the Common Good in an Unequal Society Those Who Reach the Top Want to Believe That Their Success is Morally Justified.
In a Meritocratic Society This Means That They Have Earned Their Success Through Their Work and Effort. Arrogance Belarus Telemarketing Data and Shame However This Individualization of Success and Consequently Failure Has Destructive Consequences at Both Ends of the Social Hierarchy. At the Top It Breeds Arrogance at the Base Shame. Here is a Potential Missing Piece in Our Understanding of Rightwing Populism.
As Expert Cas Mudde Reminds Us Rightwing Populist Voters Are Not Overwhelmingly Working Class They Come From All Income Segments. Instead They Tend to Share Another Characteristic an Immense Proportion Are People With a Low Educational Level. Perhaps These Voters Are Not So Much the Losers of Globalization as the Losers of a Society Built on the Myth of Meritocracy. In Such a Society Poorly Educated Individuals Are Taught to Feel Ashamed for Not Being Smart Enough for Not Having Tried Hard Enough in School. Showing Them Some Respect is Then the Key to Winning Them Back.
In a Meritocratic Society This Means That They Have Earned Their Success Through Their Work and Effort. Arrogance Belarus Telemarketing Data and Shame However This Individualization of Success and Consequently Failure Has Destructive Consequences at Both Ends of the Social Hierarchy. At the Top It Breeds Arrogance at the Base Shame. Here is a Potential Missing Piece in Our Understanding of Rightwing Populism.
As Expert Cas Mudde Reminds Us Rightwing Populist Voters Are Not Overwhelmingly Working Class They Come From All Income Segments. Instead They Tend to Share Another Characteristic an Immense Proportion Are People With a Low Educational Level. Perhaps These Voters Are Not So Much the Losers of Globalization as the Losers of a Society Built on the Myth of Meritocracy. In Such a Society Poorly Educated Individuals Are Taught to Feel Ashamed for Not Being Smart Enough for Not Having Tried Hard Enough in School. Showing Them Some Respect is Then the Key to Winning Them Back.