medicocracy

A society ruled by doctors. A key postulate of a medicocracy is that there is no natural limit to healthcare expenditures because any attempt to do so will be putting a price on life and that is immoral.

Bob: Maria, we have to declare bankruptcy because we have $160,000 in medical bills due yesterday and no way to pay it.
Maria: That's what you get when you live in a medicocracy.

by Inko Inko March 3, 2009

Chronic Mediocrity Syndrome

A sad and mildly debilitating condition in which the sufferer will never be exceptional in a chosen discipline or field of study, no matter how hard they work. While incurable, it can often be treated/maintained with a reality check.

I'm sorry Mrs. Smith. You might as well stop your son's violin lessons. He will never be a virtuoso. He has chronic mediocrity syndrome.

by Blursaw March 1, 2010

mediocrity

The most insiduous influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate.

i dont think outside the square, in fact, i wasnt aware that there was a square, i just shutup and eat my media and dont want to think for myself.

take away mainstream media andperhaps people wouldnt succumb so unknowingly to a life of mediocrity

by common August 4, 2006

train of mediocrity

The people in the back of the pack during a multiplayer Mario Kart race. The 3rd place player is usually considered the "conductor", and everyone behind him is part of the train. The reason for the label "mediocrity" is that farther back player always get much better items that allow them to "cheaply" make up ground. A common scenario is that 1st and 2nd will be skillfully sparring for first place,and blue shell comes from the back of the pack and destroys the leaders. While they are the down the "conducter" and his "train" will pass the more skilled players while making whistling sounds.

(often spoken in a sarcastic tone)
So Dave, you conducting the train of mediocrity today?

by Shaddy Safadi April 24, 2006

mediocrally

Mediocrally is an adverb derived from mediocrity (also derived from mediocre).

After the investment banker and kindergarten teacher met on Jdate, they got married and lived mediocrally ever after.

by Sara Alize Cross January 4, 2009

mediaocracy

1. The system of maintaining control over a nation by utilizing the media, usually perpetrated under the guise of "Freedom of Speech". A system of mediocracy is not limited strictly to using the mass media or mainstream media to achieve its ends. It may often use "independent" and "underground" media outlets, such as blogs and podcasts, to achieve its ends.

2. The third horseman of the Military Industrial Media Complex (formerly known as the Military Industrial Complex).

def. 1. - The United States claims to be a democracy but in reality it is a mediaocracy.

def. 2. - The mediaocracy is instrumental in creating an environment of unrest and political, social, class, & racial polarization among our citizens to distract them from the real issues.

by stonelotus May 16, 2007

metocracy

An elected system of representation in which the populace is governed by civil servants who are responsible solely to safeguard state institutions and representatives who safeguard the integrity of the vote itself.

A duality of totalitarian democracy and democratic confederalism.

Metocracy treats the will of the people and the desire of the people as distinct entities: dualistic and therefore contrapositional.

by sandraxine June 19, 2018