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.

medicocracy by Inko Inko March 3, 2009

mediocracy

a system of government by mediocre people.

A mediocracy cannot make headway.

mediocracy by uttam maharjan November 11, 2012

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.

mediaocracy by stonelotus May 16, 2007

mediocracy

1) Rule by those who are of average or below average competence.
2) A society in which people with little (if any) talent and skill are dominant and highly influential.
3) A social or administrative system which is like an antithesis to a meritocracy.

Eg 1) "With the presidency of George W. Bush, America has completed its transition from democracy to mediocracy."

2)"The success of Big Brother is indicative of our present society being a in a state of mediocracy."

mediocracy by St.O. June 16, 2006

Mediacracy

A society ruled by Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

21st Century America is a mediacracy.

Mediacracy by Ukulelelike December 21, 2012

meritocracy 

In a nutshell: A form of government where your power or position is based on your ability or achievements. Like communism, this sounds really good on paper (or a computer screen).

Allow us to introduce you to the concept of a "meritocracy" - the closest thing
to a form of self-government we have. In The United Meritocratic nation-states
of the Internet, those who can do, rule. Those who wish to rule, learn.
Everyone else watches from the stands.

-- Welcome to the Internet - redpaw 1.16.00

meritocracy by Eric Melech March 1, 2005

mediacracy

government by the media; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the corporations and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents.

The mediacracy instructs me every day through the internet, radio and T.V. how to be the perfect American.

mediacracy by Deborah Spicer October 30, 2006