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I'm sorry, but knowing your cultivated persona and giving you full credit, I'd assume that if meritocracy didn't include you, you would do all you could to subvert it.
Nah, as long as I have a passenger seat in the story of Humanity I'd be happy. Even now I realize I'll never be truly Great and have to content myself with merely being above the vast majority of people. I'm happy here and honestly would be happy working a 80th percentile pay job too if in return the low end scroungers got their just deserts (or rather, had their taxpayer funded desserts taken away). I'm not one to rebel against my superiors, that's more of a low human capital thing to do.
failed rebellions are this but successful ones are not. If the superiors are defeated in the only arena that really matters they were, evidently, not superior.
The French revolution led to the removal of the monarchy by the proles. Does this mean the proles were superior to the aristocrats?
Within twenty five years the house of Bourbon had been restored to the French throne. Does this mean the proles weren't really superior because the royal family had managed to regain power?
Since superiority/inferiority isn't something which changes at single generation level timescales we can't have the proles being superior first and then the royals, one of them were always superior, even though they both got defeated in the arena shortly after the other. So which is it?
Btw, the current Spanish Royal Family is descended from the House of Bourbon. The Spanish weren't able to permanently throw off their royals in the way the French were. So does that mean French proles were superior to the royals while Spanish proles were inferior? Even though both of the groups, being proles, have very little differentiating them?
What of it?
You do realize that the last Monarch of France (and the guy who effectively codified the current french model of government) was a Boneparte rather than a Bourbon don't you?
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The house of Bourbon coming back was a dead cat bounce. The aristocracy IE the feudal bloodline rule way of life was dealt a mortal wound when the French monarchy fell it just took a couple of decades to bleed out in the West.
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If you have a caveat for happiness that relies on a vast restructuring of society to punish people who are inferior to you then you have zero chance at happiness. Every child should learn that pinning your happiness on an external force punishing others is a fool's game anyway. You might as well say I'd be happy if all of my enemies died at my hands and their women submitted willingly to me. That's all it would take?
What's more, your obsession with race puts the lie to your belief in meritocracy. You wouldn't mind 1% 'Asian' if the 99% whites were 200 iq ubermensch? That is the same position as the one you are mocking - nobody has an issue with the idea of being ruled over by a pack of certified geniuses, they just don't believe the civilisation that is currently gooning it's way into extinction/the civilisation that couldn't figure out toilets in 2000 years is that. They think, quite rightly, that no matter how selfless and high minded anyone claims to be they will promote their in group first - and if that in group is defined ethnically meritocracy will be supplanted by racial spoils. Meritocracy by necessity requires a lack of curiosity about iq distribution, at least until it is managed by our ai overlords, because humans are not to be trusted.
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