The mythos of Neoliberalism

I feel like we are now where the people of the Soviet Union were in the mid 1980s

There's a grand narrative about economic abundance and a utopian state, but the early enthusiasm is decades behind us and fewer and fewer people still believe the official narrative

In the SU and East it was communism

In the US and West it's neoliberalism

Neoliberalism was a mythos. An inspiring story which said...we can make everyone rich with capitalism, all we have to do is take away all of those pesky regulations, protections and benefits that had kept capitalism stable for some decades and

HEY PRESTO

Chaos. Because capitalism is an inherently chaotic system and that chaos quickly becomes unbearable to most ordinary people, who value stability above all else.

And so start voting for large orange authoritarian reality tv stars in a deluded attempt to get back to some kind of order.

One comic in the 90s saw the hellscape of unfettered capitalism that the neolibs were going to unleash. And now Transmetropolitan looks like a guidebook to politics in 2025.

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LINK https://youtu.be/dWrye35R91c?si=0cxWV7Ahlvf3I4VI