As Arendt and Foucault noticed, the sign of a truly modern institution is that it refuses to accept merely outward signs of conformity.
As Arendt observes the final cruel blow is to rob people of any role - as either exploited or exploiter.
Even many of the extreme advocates of neoliberalism don't really pretend to take their own theory that seriously.
If you regulate systems by exams you end up corrupting educational standards.
Emilie Whitaker's term "blame devolution" perfectly describes modern management.
Aristotle would not identify the United Kingdom as any kind of meaningful democracy.
Life of course (by which I also mean death) is designed to balance things out. To allow the new to replace the old.
Measuring has always been political.
To the religious this paradox is resolved through faith and an acknowledgement of the mystery of certain fundamental truths - but to the non-religious this seems like a cop-out.