THE TYRANNY OF MERIT. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI
Unarguably, the best ever activity for humanity is philosophising. You would not have imagined a province of all. A place where reasoning is done for its own sake, where every problem has a solution, every solution becomes a problem and everything else is in a state of perpetual flux. It's indeed a space to be. This is a bit of what the practice of philosophy can be. I was privileged to sit in a postgraduate defense in a university in Nigeria recently. It took place in their Philosophy Department. In the course of the defense, the candidate sprang to a sub-topic titled "The Tyranny of Merit". Obviously, this work is a moment in the discourse of meritocracy. Of course, meritocracy instantiates a government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit. It takes off its flight on the pads of attempts to establish or attain a society governed by people selected according to merit. Every philosophy student by now should have known that this is an intellectual