Why We Need Meritocracy

It is useless to expect an oak tree to bear apples. Similarly, it is useless to expect governance systems designed to exploit and steal to deliver justice. Even though the world has evolved significantly, it is hard to find genuinely good leaders and 90% of the population is still languishing in poverty. I therefore think that the current governance systems have overall failed miserably to alleviate misery. The key reasons  are affliction with narrow interests, short-termism, mob mentality, and the concept of rights without responsibilities. The systems are well designed to pacify power groups and keep a few in charge of many. They are designed to enslave and not liberate, even if they claim otherwise.

Therefore it is very important for the thinkers and the doers to come together and work towards building a society that is governed by three basic principles:

• always try to get one of the best people to do the job
• rights come with responsibilities
• it is not enough to theoretically endorse the above two principles: they have to be purposefully built into the very fabric of the nation

This, in essence, is meritocracy. And this, in essence, can be a extremely difficult to implement in practice. Even profit oriented corporations often find it difficult to stick to this simple mantra. For a nation it can be devilishly difficult.Nevertheless, it stands to reason that even partial implementation of these ideas should change the fortunes of a country for the better.

In future essays I will try to explore how I think a leader can implement it.