A true meritocracy, where individuals of merit rise organically, has been replaced by a technocratic system where self-appointed elites manage society through top-down interference.

“well what we are watching right now and what we've watched over the course of the last century and a half in America is the transformation of meritocracy the idea that anyone could get ahead if they had Merit into a technocracy ruled by an elite who are attempting to reconstruct the entire Society”