Credentialisation

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Credentialisation
krɪˈdɛnʃᵊlaɪˈzeɪʃᵊn (n.)
How we transmogrify ourselves from humans to machines. Has the imperatives of scale, network and symbol processing overwhelm us comma we increasingly switch education and metis for credentialisation. No longer matters that we are educated, acquire wisdom, anger subtle skills for navigating an ineffable world. The world is, after all, solved and does not need navigation other than by the established rules and these can of course be programmed in.

Hence instead of educating ourselves we rank, categorize, and compare ourselves, telling us that the intractable subjectivity of between this is some kind of societal ill or shortcoming rather than the glue that holds us together. Rather than earning wisdom we own badges.

We convert ourselves into symbols. Static designators rather than receptacles of potential. This make it easier for the system to manipulate us, of course, the same way you would expect maturing machine to manipulate symbols. As long as we have our badges the state can see us.