Here is a nice summary of the technocracy, credential ist educational, specialization ist, advanced industrial capitalism, myth:
" Industrial society develops through the application of scientific advances to new forms of technology.... As a result, the school requirements of jobs change. Unskilled positions are greatly reduced, first with the decline of agriculture, then of heavy manual labor; skilled positions become proportionately more common with the rising demand for skilled technicians, clerical workers, and professional specialists. The requirements for administrative leadership positions are upgraded too, in the larger, more complex, and technically more innovative modern organizations. According to this explanation, elites must come to depend on skill rather than on family background or political connections. In general, modern societies move away from ascription to achievement, from a system of privilege to a technical meritocracy. " Randall Collins, "The Myth Of Technocracy", The Credential Society.
Most people, if you tell them something like this, they don't even understand what kind of thing you are saying, first of all.
Then next, they don't believe you...........
They have been taught a million different times and ways this is not what their particular field, or credential, or skill, or expertise, or multiples of them, are somewhat all about.
Everyone thinks not only that he is special, but that he is special for objective, technical, and professional, reasons.
Term search symbolic analysts, Reich, Steingart, etc.
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