From Status to Merit and Back to Status

Paul Craig Roberts- The era of liberty has come to a close. From this day on, every child born in the Western world is born into tyranny.

Henry Sumner Maine in 1861 wrote that “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.”  Maine is referring to the rise of merit from the Enlightenment and its replacement of aristocratic status as the basis for advancement. 

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