Why this word is great
MEDIOCRACY — [Noun] A social or political system in which power or influence is held by mediocre individuals, or a ruling class composed of such people. Blend of English 'mediocre' (from Latin mediocris, "of moderate quality") and the combining form '-cracy' (from Greek -kratia, "rule" or "power"). Unlike meritocracy, which theoretically elevates the exceptional, or mere mediocrity, which describes a middling state, mediocracy is the active institutionalization of the average. It is the committee that suffocates the novel idea, the promotion granted for faultless conformity over flashes of genius, and the cultural landscape flattened to a safe, consensus mean. It is the quiet realization that the greatest enemy of progress is not malevolence, but the gentle, suffocating weight of the adequate.