If something is Greek (or Latin), I usually know it.  )  I don't know if a meritocracy, while a good ideal, is realizable in any setting: nepotism and political favoritism are too prevalent in many businesses and in the appointee levels of government. :I most certainly agre with you about the blind eye turned by many on the starving people of the world.  We have the resources to feed them, and we should make sure it happens.  However, in many cases the hold of religions that ban contraception needs to be loosened  the earth has finite resources, and more will not fall to earth like manna from the gods.     