Joanna
John Thornton wrote:
>While the thread has not actually been a discussion of Harry Potter
>books I can't help but wonder what the hell the Harry Potter books have
>to do with the topic of meritocracy?
>My SO read the first few Potter books and she reported to me they were
>elitist through and through.
>Ordinary people are apparently "muggles" and are depicted as scared,
>stupid, easily distracted small minded persons written about in a manner
>totally lacking in the range of personalities of those in the wizard world.
>One can only enter the wizard world if you have some blood relative who
>isn't a muggle. One must be born to the right sorts of people (even
>distant relatives can count apparently) if one wishes to attend a wizard
>school (prep school ?) and learn something beyond TV and pop culture.
>Where is the meritocracy in this system?
>This is just plain old British peerage nonsense for the modern age to my
>way of thinking.
>The riveting tales of the infighting among the elites complete with
>arguments over the dilution of status with the dilution of bloodlines.
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>John Thornton
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