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The Vision | No one is safe

One of the ideas most integral to America’s conception of itself is the idea of meritocracy. It’s a seductive one, aligning well with what we’d like to believe about our nation and ourselves. It allows us to deeply commit to the notion that our successes are solely the dividends of our own skills and abilities and, conversely, that others’ failures are results of their own inadequacies: their thug personalities, their music, their pathology.