Dissecting The Myths Of Merit And Meritocracy PART-II

Merit, Intelligence, and Heredity
The merit occupies such a glorious and snooty place in present liberal societies; still it is very difficult to be the most meritorious definer of the merit. It is difficult to decide whether merit is something which is related with biological giftedness, unique circuitry of the cortical and cerebral inheritance or result of these which is visible in the physical world? Though the hardcore fans of merit will object on the geneticism of merit but this is what which is most obvious from their most propagandized inferences. There is no dearth of people who see a close alignment between merit and intelligence. Linking merit with intelligence itself is erroneous .Intelligence itself despite being a popular concept is subject to most vigorous criticism. It has been found to be measuring no absolute intelligence but conception of intelligence what is deemed to be intelligence by its creators, users and analysts. Lacking heavily in validity, efficiency, consistency, precision etc and yielding to results acceptable by particular creeds, classes, colour and environs. The universality of what constitutes intelligence is not acceptable by scientific standards. Intelligence has very little to do with genetic endowment. Environmental factors not only seem to, but historical evidences too, confirm that environmental factors have much more potential to defeat the constraints of biological rigidity. This may be little frustrating to the fervent supporters of merit as their chain of the archetypical myths of merit is disintegrating .Neither it is supported by their own handmaid of scientific researches nor prognosis of historical factuality.
Merit could not be linked to grossly erroneous systems of educational success and achievements as well; Despite, all the towering claims of academicians and scholars of mainstream thought, the present system of evaluation for educational achievement in the history of the man. The horrible measures of objectivity to ascertain the talent, intelligence, creativity, knowledge and likes and their appreciation in the learner prove abominably wrong in practical achievement of life. These are some of the vitally desirable ingredients of merit which have so defective a stand.
Merit is believed to be the key component of the systems-based on power, government control, influence, exploitation of resources, scarcity and unyielding greed for materialistic achievements in terms of individualised editions of competition and self-actualisation. Merit is a calliper of threatened visions of societal future, in a society which operates on the premises of infinity of consumption principle—where elite due to their eternal greed for maximum exploitation of societal resources, however limited, cannot continue with present levels of cowboy behaviourism. They cannot part with their hold off the precious resources, source of the amazing power.

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