Arathain Kelvar wrote:
At a glance, a meritocracy sounds grand. However, the reality is that those in power determine how "merit" is defined.
A high percentage of those in control will be veterans - this is not necessarily a problem, but as history teaches us, military in control tends to be problematic.
Teaching gets you citizenship - which merely puts education under the control of the Federal government in the extreme.
It codifies a second class of citizens. Granted, any of these can change their status at any time, which is better, but... still.
There's problems. It's not necessarily the devil, but it's not good. It's ripe for unrest, and over-control.
No system is perfect, but this model would go downhill fast.
Hardly. A high percentage in control would be veterans, but that does not translate to "the military is in control" and veterans come in pretty much the same breadth of political opinion as everyone else.
I don't see how you think this system would go downhill fast. Unrest is very easy to squash in this sytem because those engaging in unrest have really no argument. They can gain the franchise with a fairly minor investment of effort, and even without that they have freedom of speech. Or, to put it another way, if you can't put up with being told what to do for 2 years as a young adult, you don't need a voice in telling everyone else what to do; you can express your opinion but you don't get a vote, and shouldn't. Furthermore, the inherent unwillingness or inability of those engaging in "unrest" to put up with that kind of structure would rather preclude them ever forming effective resistance.
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