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.
##想认真地推荐一下这本书,很适合给当下各种卷的讨论提供一个思路。当我们普遍以为我们从贵族制进化到 meritocracy 是打破了封建藩篱开始人人平等的进步社会时,作者已经在质疑 meritocracy 给社会带来的毒害,这其中就包括因为人人都可以凭自己的才能参与竞争,导致成功的人认为凭的是自己的本事,而失败的人不仅地位低下,同时还伴有一种社会赋予的屈辱感,这进一步加剧了成功者的傲慢和失败者愤懑,以及中间阶层的极度恐惧。而是否真的存在所谓公平的竞争?我们当下对成功的定义是否过于轻视了对道德和common good的追求?对于民粹主义的反扑应该如何看待和应对?种种我们正在经历的问题,作者或许没有直接提供答案,但是可以帮我们更好的反思该怎么看待当前摆在我们面前的各种问题。
评分##精英们不因将成功归结为纯个人努力的结果,也无权为“失败者”决定所谓的“机会平等”和补偿,真正的良好社会则在于,培养公民意识,通过广泛而平等的公共商议,协力寻找并追求无论成功与否都能获得尊严和幸福的共同价值
评分##花了一个月多几天,终于啃完了。我第一次听说成功的反思是19年上野的东大演讲,从此我开始痛苦地反思自己的不知感恩的特权和空洞的优越感,以及如何才能超越多年空虚的高分生活给我带来的我是个麻木的机器人之感。在看书的过程中过去两年中遇到的很多当时没有答案的问题都有了若隐若现的回答,但我还不能够清楚的表述出来。人与人的相遇而非隔离是个有用的药方,以及我很高兴我终于解脱出了不断逼迫自己hoop-jumping life而重新体会到求知欲给人的纯粹的快乐。(以及,当时买这本书是找工作的时候手贱点进了我很讨厌的人的领英页面,看到她在里面把自己吹成极其meritorious的样子,给当时苦闷的我带来了巨大的心理不平衡。是为了让自己多看书少看社交媒体影响自己心情才激情下单的,真有趣,倒是碰巧买到了良药。
评分##2.5 Looks like his writing is paid by number of words and his narration number of hours lol. This writing style ugh
评分##前半部分的分析很深刻,但是后半部分提出的解决方案感觉狗尾续貂。
评分##“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·猛男落泪。
评分给我带来非常多思考的一本书,书写上逻辑严谨,层层递进非常舒服。重设了我很多概念的先验认知并联系起来,比如meritocracy之于当下的popularism,polarization和demoralization;比如technocracy加上globalization之于美国这四十年来日益加剧的inequality;比如liberal market,american dream之于meritocracy的必然,从而改变social welfare,(经济学上将近半世纪的著名争论!)而后又如何导向现在盛行的credentialism再进一步强化meritocracy与mobility的日益不可能。我想把它武断地推荐给每一个人,它不是一部全对的书,但会让人或社会变得更公正,更可能,我想。
评分##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."
评分##有时候同样的观点重复了好几遍,有些冗长感。
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