Sublime

Efficiency is the new norm, material profit the new goal, and greed the new virtue.

Meritocratic thinking now shapes almost every aspect of life and, with it, our identity.

Thus a neo-liberal meritocracy leads to its own point of departure: universal egotism.

A paper reality is being created that has less and less to do with actual reality.

the key is to find a good balance between the individual and the group, between individual creativity and productive co-operation.

The current economic system is bringing out the worst in us.

Meanwhile, educational and economic meritocracy have merged, to the extent that intellectual achievements without economic added value are regarded as largely worthless.

The end of the previous century marked the beginning of a radical new take on identity. People became responsible for perfecting themselves, for engineering their own success.

we live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared.