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“Isn’t it time we left behind the Ship of Fools, and embarked instead on the Ship of Geniuses? What is the Star Trek vision of the future if not a depiction of a world ruled by meritocrats? You wouldn’t let the religious, the violent, or the rich onboard a starship. With them in your crew, you’d never reach your destination. You’d go round and round in circles, or crash. If humanity wants to arrive at the gates of heaven, only the smartest humans can build the sleek vessels to take us there. Prayer, meditation and the super rich didn’t land men on the moon... incredibly smart humans did, using reason, logic, technology, engineering, science and mathematics. These are all the subjects most shunned by average people. And that’s exactly the human tragedy.”
― Michael Faust, The Case for Meritocracy

“We are those fools who could not rest
   In the dull earth we left behind,
But burned with passion for the West,
   And drank strange frenzy from its wind.
The world where wise men live at ease
   Fades from our unregretful eyes,
And blind across uncharted seas
   We stagger on our enterprise”
― Anonymous