Can you relate to this?
"There were still a few men of great ability around, but they found it increasingly difficult to function in an environment vitiated by the parasites, who, being men of no merit, could progress only by pulling down or pushing aside others, especially those of merit, for the greatest obstruction to the progress of mediocrities was the presence of an office or true ability in their midst."
These lines from "Emperors of the Peacock Throne
" by Abraham Eraly who is talking about the quality of "amirs" in the Mughal era. What struck me is that they ring so true even today.
Looks like we have a long, rich, unbroken traditional heritage of mediocrity, sycophancy and crabs-in-the-bucketism!
"There were still a few men of great ability around, but they found it increasingly difficult to function in an environment vitiated by the parasites, who, being men of no merit, could progress only by pulling down or pushing aside others, especially those of merit, for the greatest obstruction to the progress of mediocrities was the presence of an office or true ability in their midst."
These lines from "Emperors of the Peacock Throne
" by Abraham Eraly who is talking about the quality of "amirs" in the Mughal era. What struck me is that they ring so true even today.Looks like we have a long, rich, unbroken traditional heritage of mediocrity, sycophancy and crabs-in-the-bucketism!
