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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » Meritocracy - Power in the Hands of the Intelligentsia
| Meritocracy - Power in the Hands of the Intelligentsia [message #225072] |
Sa, 15 Juli 2006 01:57 |
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ONE THING IS absolutely certain: The days of the politicians are over. They
have done too well their job of being destructive, violent.
Nothing is favorable to the politician; and as each day passes his
death comes closer. He himself is responsible. He improved the weapons,
which can bring death to the whole world, to such a point that there is no
way of going back. Either there will be an ultimate war -- which means death
to all and everything -- or a total change of the whole structure in the
human society. I am calling that change "meritocracy."
One thing -- we have to drop the idea that every man, just because he
is twenty-one, is capable of choosing who is the right person to decide the
fate of nations. Age cannot be a decisive factor. We have to change the
decisive factor; that is changing the very foundation.
My suggestion is that only a person who is at least a matriculate, a
high school graduate, will be able to vote. His age does not matter.
For the local government, matriculation will be the qualification for
the voters. And graduation from a university, at least a bachelor's degree,
should be a necessary qualification for anybody running for election, for
the candidates. A master's degree should be a minimum qualification for the
one who is running for mayor.
For the state elections, graduation with a bachelor's degree should be
the minimum qualification for the voters. A master's degree in science, the
arts, commerce, should be the necessary degree for the candidates. For the
cabinet ministers an M.A. with highest honors should be the minimum
necessary qualification; more will be, of course, more appreciated. And
anybody trying to become a cabinet minister will have to know something
about the subject. His qualification should correspond to the subject matter
that he is going to deal with in his term of office.
So if somebody is going to be an education minister, then his
qualifications should make him capable of being an education minister.
He should have at least a master's degree in education with highest
honors; with less than highest honors nobody should be a minister on the
state level. Yes, if he has better degrees -- doctor of education, Ph.D. in
education -- that is good, that will make him more qualified.
The attorney general should have at least a doctorate in law, an
LL.D.-- not less than that, because he is going to defend the law of the
state, the rights of the citizens. He should have the best degree possible
so he knows everything about it.
The governor should have the best of all the degrees possible for him:
M.A. with highest honors, Ph.D. -- his Ph.D. should be in political
science -- and at least one honorary degree, a D.Litt. or LL.D.
For the federal government, a master's degree will be the voter's
minimum qualification. A master's degree with highest honors and a Ph.D.
should be the minimum for the candidates running for election. And the
ministers should all have the highest degrees in the subjects for which they
are going to be ministers. If it is education then the highest degrees in
education available in the country; if it is going to be health, then the
highest degrees in health available in the country.
The president should have at least two Ph.D.s and one honorary D.Litt.
or LL.D.; and the same for the vice-president because he can become
president any day. In this way mobocracy is destroyed. Then just because you
are twenty-one it does not mean you are capable of choosing the government.
Choosing the government should be a very skillful, intelligent job.
Just by being twenty-one you may be able to reproduce children -- it
needs no skill, no education, biology sends you well prepared. But to choose
the government, to choose people who are going to have all the powers over
you and everybody, and who are going to decide the destiny of the country
and the world, just to be twenty-one is certainly not enough...the way we
have been choosing them is simply idiotic.
I would like all the universities -- within each state -- to call a
convention of all the vice-chancellors and the eminent professors; of the
eminent intelligentsia who may not be part of the university: painters,
artists, poets, writers, novelists, dancers, actors, musicians. It would
include all dimensions of talents, all kinds of people who have shown their
caliber -- excluding politicians completely.
All the Nobel Prize winners should be invited -- excluding the
politicians again, because within these past few years a few politicians
have been given Nobel Prizes, and this has degraded the value of the Nobel
Prize.
So from each state a delegation should be chosen for the national
convention, which goes into details of how the meritocracy can work.
From the national candidates there should be an international
convention of all the universities of the world and the intelligentsia. This
would be the first of its kind because never has the whole intelligentsia of
the world come together to decide the fate of humanity. They should write
the first constitution of the world.
It will not be American, it will not be Indian, it will not be
Chinese -- it is going to be simply the constitution of the whole of
humanity. There is no need for different kinds of laws. There is no need --
all human beings need the same kind of laws.
And a world constitution will be a declaration that nations are no
longer significant.
They can exist as functional units but they are no longer independent
powers. And if the whole intelligentsia of the world is behind this
convention it will not be very difficult to convince the generals of the
world to move away from the politicians.
And what power do politicians have? All the power that they have we
have given to them. We can take it back. It is not their power, it is our
power. We just have to find a way to take it back -- because giving is very
easy, taking is a little difficult. They will not be so simple and innocent
when you take the power back as they were when they were asking it from you.
It is our power, but they will go on having it if the mob remains there to
give it to them; the mob can be convinced about anything.
It is the function of the intelligentsia.... I would like to say that
now, if anything happens to humanity, the whole condemnation will go to the
intelligentsia: "What were you doing? If those idiots were ready to kill
humanity, what were you doing? You simply went on grumbling, being grumpy,
but you did nothing else."
And the time is running short. Once we decide that the voting power is
not the birthright of every human being but is a right which you will have
to earn by your intelligence.... You have to see the distinction: Everybody
is given the opportunity to earn it, there is equal opportunity for all to
earn it, but it is nothing birth-given; you have to prove it.
Once we move the power from the mob into the hands of intelligent
people, people who know what they are doing, we can create something
beautiful.
If a man who has devoted his whole life to thinking about education
and its problems, has done all that was possible to do to find out every
detail, every fundamental of education, all the possible philosophies of
education -- if he becomes an education minister, there is a possibility
that he will do something.
I suggest to shift completely from the mob to the chosen few.
I am not against the people. In fact, in the hands of these
politicians, the people are against themselves. I am all for the people, and
what I am saying can be said to be exactly what has been said about
democracy: for the people, by the people, of the people -- just "by the
people" I will have to change. This intelligentsia will be for the people,
of the people. It will be serving the masses.
It is so simple a thing. You don't elect a doctor, and just anybody
can stand, because it is a birthright and people can vote...two persons
fighting to be the doctor or to be the surgeon. What is wrong in it? The
people choose for themselves: for the people, by the people, of the people.
They choose one person -- to be the surgeon -- because he speaks better, he
looks good on the television and he makes great promises.
But he is not even a butcher, and he is going to become a surgeon! A
butcher would have been better; at least he would have known how to cut --
but you don't choose a surgeon by election.
How can you choose a president by election? How can you choose a
governor by election? For one post so many people are hankering, desiring.
Those who are most sick with ambitiousness will fight the most, they will
kill -- they will do anything.
You are giving so much power to power-hungry people; with your own
hands you are helping them to hang you!
This is not democracy.
In the name of democracy these people have been exploiting the masses.
So politicians and priests both have to be dropped out of their long,
long-standing establishment, and a totally new kind of management has to be
developed.
Just to make a distinction I am calling my system "meritocracy." But
merit for what? The merit is to serve and share. And once you have decided
to shift the power from the politicians to the intelligentsia, everything is
possible -- everything becomes simple.
Meritocracy is a whole program of transforming the structure of
society, the structure of the government, the structure of education.
It is a difficult job, arduous but not impossible -- particularly in
such a situation when death is the only alternative.
Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation
http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Language=Engl ish
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| Re: Meritocracy - Power in the Hands of the Intelligentsia [message #225084 ] |
Fr, 14 Juli 2006 12:33 |
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Do you think before you post - you may be a prime example of what an
educatioin can undo to the minds of the people.
"dd" <dd [at] d.com> wrote in message news:44b75c20$1 [at] news.starhub.net.sg...
> ONE THING IS absolutely certain: The days of the politicians are over.
They
> have done too well their job of being destructive, violent.
>
> Nothing is favorable to the politician; and as each day passes his
> death comes closer. He himself is responsible. He improved the weapons,
> which can bring death to the whole world, to such a point that there is no
> way of going back. Either there will be an ultimate war -- which means
death
> to all and everything -- or a total change of the whole structure in the
> human society. I am calling that change "meritocracy."
>
> One thing -- we have to drop the idea that every man, just because
he
> is twenty-one, is capable of choosing who is the right person to decide
the
> fate of nations. Age cannot be a decisive factor. We have to change the
> decisive factor; that is changing the very foundation.
>
> My suggestion is that only a person who is at least a matriculate, a
> high school graduate, will be able to vote. His age does not matter.
>
> For the local government, matriculation will be the qualification
for
> the voters. And graduation from a university, at least a bachelor's
degree,
> should be a necessary qualification for anybody running for election, for
> the candidates. A master's degree should be a minimum qualification for
the
> one who is running for mayor.
>
> For the state elections, graduation with a bachelor's degree should
be
> the minimum qualification for the voters. A master's degree in science,
the
> arts, commerce, should be the necessary degree for the candidates. For the
> cabinet ministers an M.A. with highest honors should be the minimum
> necessary qualification; more will be, of course, more appreciated. And
> anybody trying to become a cabinet minister will have to know something
> about the subject. His qualification should correspond to the subject
matter
> that he is going to deal with in his term of office.
>
> So if somebody is going to be an education minister, then his
> qualifications should make him capable of being an education minister.
>
> He should have at least a master's degree in education with highest
> honors; with less than highest honors nobody should be a minister on the
> state level. Yes, if he has better degrees -- doctor of education, Ph.D.
in
> education -- that is good, that will make him more qualified.
>
> The attorney general should have at least a doctorate in law, an
> LL.D.-- not less than that, because he is going to defend the law of the
> state, the rights of the citizens. He should have the best degree possible
> so he knows everything about it.
>
> The governor should have the best of all the degrees possible for
him:
> M.A. with highest honors, Ph.D. -- his Ph.D. should be in political
> science -- and at least one honorary degree, a D.Litt. or LL.D.
>
> For the federal government, a master's degree will be the voter's
> minimum qualification. A master's degree with highest honors and a Ph.D.
> should be the minimum for the candidates running for election. And the
> ministers should all have the highest degrees in the subjects for which
they
> are going to be ministers. If it is education then the highest degrees in
> education available in the country; if it is going to be health, then the
> highest degrees in health available in the country.
>
> The president should have at least two Ph.D.s and one honorary
D.Litt.
> or LL.D.; and the same for the vice-president because he can become
> president any day. In this way mobocracy is destroyed. Then just because
you
> are twenty-one it does not mean you are capable of choosing the
government.
>
> Choosing the government should be a very skillful, intelligent job.
>
> Just by being twenty-one you may be able to reproduce children -- it
> needs no skill, no education, biology sends you well prepared. But to
choose
> the government, to choose people who are going to have all the powers over
> you and everybody, and who are going to decide the destiny of the country
> and the world, just to be twenty-one is certainly not enough...the way we
> have been choosing them is simply idiotic.
>
> I would like all the universities -- within each state -- to call a
> convention of all the vice-chancellors and the eminent professors; of the
> eminent intelligentsia who may not be part of the university: painters,
> artists, poets, writers, novelists, dancers, actors, musicians. It would
> include all dimensions of talents, all kinds of people who have shown
their
> caliber -- excluding politicians completely.
>
> All the Nobel Prize winners should be invited -- excluding the
> politicians again, because within these past few years a few politicians
> have been given Nobel Prizes, and this has degraded the value of the Nobel
> Prize.
>
> So from each state a delegation should be chosen for the national
> convention, which goes into details of how the meritocracy can work.
>
> From the national candidates there should be an international
> convention of all the universities of the world and the intelligentsia.
This
> would be the first of its kind because never has the whole intelligentsia
of
> the world come together to decide the fate of humanity. They should write
> the first constitution of the world.
>
> It will not be American, it will not be Indian, it will not be
> Chinese -- it is going to be simply the constitution of the whole of
> humanity. There is no need for different kinds of laws. There is no
need --
> all human beings need the same kind of laws.
>
> And a world constitution will be a declaration that nations are no
> longer significant.
>
> They can exist as functional units but they are no longer
independent
> powers. And if the whole intelligentsia of the world is behind this
> convention it will not be very difficult to convince the generals of the
> world to move away from the politicians.
>
> And what power do politicians have? All the power that they have we
> have given to them. We can take it back. It is not their power, it is our
> power. We just have to find a way to take it back -- because giving is
very
> easy, taking is a little difficult. They will not be so simple and
innocent
> when you take the power back as they were when they were asking it from
you.
> It is our power, but they will go on having it if the mob remains there to
> give it to them; the mob can be convinced about anything.
>
> It is the function of the intelligentsia.... I would like to say
that
> now, if anything happens to humanity, the whole condemnation will go to
the
> intelligentsia: "What were you doing? If those idiots were ready to kill
> humanity, what were you doing? You simply went on grumbling, being grumpy,
> but you did nothing else."
>
> And the time is running short. Once we decide that the voting power
is
> not the birthright of every human being but is a right which you will have
> to earn by your intelligence.... You have to see the distinction:
Everybody
> is given the opportunity to earn it, there is equal opportunity for all to
> earn it, but it is nothing birth-given; you have to prove it.
>
> Once we move the power from the mob into the hands of intelligent
> people, people who know what they are doing, we can create something
> beautiful.
>
> If a man who has devoted his whole life to thinking about education
> and its problems, has done all that was possible to do to find out every
> detail, every fundamental of education, all the possible philosophies of
> education -- if he becomes an education minister, there is a possibility
> that he will do something.
>
> I suggest to shift completely from the mob to the chosen few.
>
> I am not against the people. In fact, in the hands of these
> politicians, the people are against themselves. I am all for the people,
and
> what I am saying can be said to be exactly what has been said about
> democracy: for the people, by the people, of the people -- just "by the
> people" I will have to change. This intelligentsia will be for the people,
> of the people. It will be serving the masses.
>
> It is so simple a thing. You don't elect a doctor, and just anybody
> can stand, because it is a birthright and people can vote...two persons
> fighting to be the doctor or to be the surgeon. What is wrong in it? The
> people choose for themselves: for the people, by the people, of the
people.
> They choose one person -- to be the surgeon -- because he speaks better,
he
> looks good on the television and he makes great promises.
>
> But he is not even a butcher, and he is going to become a surgeon! A
> butcher would have been better; at least he would have known how to cut --
> but you don't choose a surgeon by election.
>
> How can you choose a president by election? How can you choose a
> governor by election? For one post so many people are hankering, desiring.
> Those who are most sick with ambitiousness will fight the most, they will
> kill -- they will do anything.
>
> You are giving so much power to power-hungry people; with your own
> hands you are helping them to hang you!
>
> This is not democracy.
>
> In the name of democracy these people have been exploiting the
masses.
>
> So politicians and priests both have to be dropped out of their
long,
> long-standing establishment, and a totally new kind of management has to
be
> developed.
>
> Just to make a distinction I am calling my system "meritocracy." But
> merit for what? The merit is to serve and share. And once you have decided
> to shift the power from the politicians to the intelligentsia, everything
is
> possible -- everything becomes simple.
>
> Meritocracy is a whole program of transforming the structure of
> society, the structure of the government, the structure of education.
>
> It is a difficult job, arduous but not impossible -- particularly in
> such a situation when death is the only alternative.
>
>
>
>
> Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation
> http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Language=Engl ish
>
>
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| Re: Meritocracy - Power in the Hands of the Intelligentsia [message #225274 ] |
Sa, 15 Juli 2006 03:23 |
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"dd" <dd [at] d.com> wrote in message news:44b75c20$1 [at] news.starhub.net.sg...
> ONE THING IS absolutely certain: The days of the politicians
> are over. They have done too well their job of being destructive,
> violent.
You are talking nonsense.
Politician have exited since the Greek. They will
continue to rule the world long after you are gone...
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