Brunetta e Achille: a proposito del concetto meritocratico-neomanageriale di nullafacenza

The Iliad is a meritocratic poem. Achilles is the model of the meritocracy, of the meritocratic conception of justice. As his valour is not completely recognised by his chief Agamemnon, Achilles is ready to persist in his fury until the destruction of his own army. Cooperation, solidarity, friendship are sacrificed in the name of a meritocratic idea of honour. All of this reminds from close up the meritocratic conception of public administrations, universities, schools made concrete by the Italian legislative reforms of the last few years, promoted both by right- and left-wing politicians and scholars, so little surprisingly similar in advocating the thaumaturgic virtues of the meritocracy.