I personally strongly oppose it, T.S. Eliot and Christopher Lasch furnished excellent critiques of it. Here is an article on why meritocracy is destroying our society: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/ ... cracy/amp/
Meritocracy constantly sifts humanity and rips individuals from their station in life.
Meritocracy functions as a brain drain on all areas but the elite hubs, stripping both rural areas and poorer urban areas of their meritorious members. Children of middle class families go away for education, that is, testing and qualification for merit sorting. They go far from their families and communities to do this, and after being sorted they frequently move away permanently. Even it's rare they stay in one place, they buzz around like solitary locusts following occupational or other economic currents until they perhaps get married. But even then they don't settled down, and after marriage go from home to home, then their children grow up and go to school, and the processes repeats. This is making any culture but pop culture very difficult to maintain, because culture is extremely hereditary, we grow up into it. It's impossible for it to be nomadic except with nomadic communities. But since communities these days are seldom nomadic, it is very regional, and so it is jeopardized. Only strong religious backbone to a culture (as with Jews) could preserve under these conditions, otherwise it will vanish. Imagine if you will that half the Samoans left the Pacific and lived elsewhere, and their numbers were replaced by outsiders. And then half the population again left and dispersed. And again. There would soon be no Samoan culture. Do the descendants of Continental immigrants in the U.S. maintain the cultural distinction between Germany and Italy? No, of course not.
Meritocracy is dangerous