It is not hard to place a label on a phenomena, but what we could achieve by such a labelling?
Lets for example look at obscure dress codes which no one truly understands, but some can follow them while others do not. Meritocracy in action? Yeah. And what? Such a mechanism would work with any society, with hunter-gatherers, with capitalists or socialists. It is a human nature, you cannot fix it by a label. Maybe it is possible to invent some clever solution to a problem (some kind of anti-fashion? or afahsion? agnofashion? or maybe some kind of strictly formalized dress codes, like in army?), but to invent it one needs no labels, labels could even be an obstacle because they frame a potential inventor into (possibly) wrong pattern of thinking.
Or we can look at financial help from parents. Meritocracy? Yes, a good label for it. And what? Labelling doesn't help us in this case also. (Communists in Soviet Russia at their start had a solution for that problem: lets rip children from their parents and place them into orphanage. Such a way all children will have equal chances, they will be equal. Moreover it will help with breaking apart old ugly social customs and prejudices, we actually have a chance to make a reality from fairy tale of "Soviet Human". Later commuists became more human-like and instead of orphanage they promoted nurseries, kindergathens, and so on, so a young Soviet Human could be educated from his birth how to be a Soviet Human by professionals. This less radical and more humanistic solution was not perfect, but worked for some lengths)
Labelling mostly used by humans to make excuse for not thinking about a problem. By placing label one put an end to a thinking and happily continues his travel through life without inconvenient feeling that he understands nothing about reality.
Simple labels to complex problems don't work most of the time.
To be fair, it's hard and time intensive to look at all problems this way. But it will probably lead to success more of the time...though sometimes a complex solution can be difficult to implement.
Presuably you're not advocating that we abandon nouns. So what are you advocating? I get that you don't like labels, but if the alternative is your rambling style of discourse, you're not selling it.
Is your polemic against meritocracy, or against labels?
Lets for example look at obscure dress codes which no one truly understands, but some can follow them while others do not. Meritocracy in action? Yeah. And what? Such a mechanism would work with any society, with hunter-gatherers, with capitalists or socialists. It is a human nature, you cannot fix it by a label. Maybe it is possible to invent some clever solution to a problem (some kind of anti-fashion? or afahsion? agnofashion? or maybe some kind of strictly formalized dress codes, like in army?), but to invent it one needs no labels, labels could even be an obstacle because they frame a potential inventor into (possibly) wrong pattern of thinking.
Or we can look at financial help from parents. Meritocracy? Yes, a good label for it. And what? Labelling doesn't help us in this case also. (Communists in Soviet Russia at their start had a solution for that problem: lets rip children from their parents and place them into orphanage. Such a way all children will have equal chances, they will be equal. Moreover it will help with breaking apart old ugly social customs and prejudices, we actually have a chance to make a reality from fairy tale of "Soviet Human". Later commuists became more human-like and instead of orphanage they promoted nurseries, kindergathens, and so on, so a young Soviet Human could be educated from his birth how to be a Soviet Human by professionals. This less radical and more humanistic solution was not perfect, but worked for some lengths)
Labelling mostly used by humans to make excuse for not thinking about a problem. By placing label one put an end to a thinking and happily continues his travel through life without inconvenient feeling that he understands nothing about reality.