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Why Theory
Challenging the Meritocratic Ideal
The meritocratic idea is seen as a fundamental lie that contemporary capitalism operates on, forcing individuals to constantly avow it in various aspects of life, such as education and work. The speaker expresses that this constant avowal of the meritocratic system is what truly shapes ideology, rather than the idea of being fooled by ideology as suggested in Marxist theory.
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