"Meritocracy...is so busy concentrating on efficiently identifying who is the best and pushing him to the fore that it shuts down its confidences in the rest of us ...The whole idea of a society of winners -- a place known above all for its best -- leads with surprising speed to a narrow pyramidal social structure. And then to division and widespread passivity. That in turn leads to false populism and mediocrity; to a world obsessed by bread and circuses, Heroes and the need for leadership."