Republican presidential candidate and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy warned of a “listlessness in American society” caused by its abandonment of meritocratic principles in a recent speech.
Speaking at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit on March 31, Ramaswamy diagnosed what he believes is responsible for the popularity of “woke” ideas among young people in the West.
Ramaswamy began by explaining the linguistic root of the word “America,” explaining that its root lies in the Gothic word “Amalric,” meaning “master of work.”
“I’m a big believer that language often teaches us something about the truth of what language actually describes.”
“If you think about the root, the genesis of the American name itself, it is he who is the master of work,” Ramaswamy said in his speech. “The idea of hard work, effort as a means to achieve success is actually inextricably linked to that idea of America itself.”…