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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump.
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
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##聽瞭一個小時 Michael Sanders 的 podcast，隻能說，這個問題簡直就是針對中國父母來的吧。可惜那些能聽得進這些意見的人，估計也不會搞什麼起跑綫 to begin with..
評分##前半部分的分析很深刻，但是後半部分提齣的解決方案感覺狗尾續貂。
評分##“even if a meritocracy were fair, it would not be a good society. It would generate hubris and anxiety among the winners and humiliation and resentment among the losers” 真·猛男落淚。
評分##引言寫於COVID當下，這一年社會日益嚴重的分裂也應證瞭書裏的觀點。非常周到的從新教和資本主義起源，論述到近代資本化（甚至可以直接點說是公司製度和華爾街文化）帶來的更露骨的精英理念的世襲和演變，最後導緻社會以功績和金錢利潤作為衡量人的效用的決定因素，以及這背後一係列“世襲”精英製管理的上升通道。當我們說著“人類命運共同體”時，首先應該放棄使用“站在曆史正確的一邊”這種說辭，既然是共同體，那就都是一邊的。
評分##我在豆瓣上標注這本書 想起一個標題梗 The Tyranny of Douban，懂麼，懂瞭就明白這本書想說明什麼瞭。
評分##前半部分的分析很深刻，但是後半部分提齣的解決方案感覺狗尾續貂。
評分##有時候同樣的觀點重復瞭好幾遍，有些冗長感。
評分##剖析瞭meritocracy的內在邏輯以及它如何導緻瞭美國和世界範圍內日漸興起的民粹主義。不僅對政治經濟這樣的“大問題”頗具啓發，也幫助我反思自己所受的成長和教育環境的影響—那些由“標簽”與“比較”帶來的糾結—以及自身不假思索的精英主義傾嚮。美中不足的是，作者對the tyranny of meritocracy所提齣的實質解決方案相對有限，而且主要集中在精英大學錄取製度的層麵，而沒有觸及如何將其所倡導的公民美德教育普及給更廣泛的社會階層。不過，相信這本書是一個好的開始，希望在未來，不同階級，身份的人都可以驕傲地說，“我們都有光明的前途。”
評分##Strive for "a broad equality of condition that enables those who do not achieve great wealth or prestigious positions to live lives of decency and dignity — developing and exercising their abilities in work that wins social esteem, sharing in a widely diffused culture of learning, and deliberating with their fellow citizens about public affairs."
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