Thread: Neoliberalism. The ideology that lost it's name.

Originally Posted by wasabi

The problem with these lippy folks is that the reason they have suddenly discovered that they are not the majority now,they are resorting to talking shit about it, and it's bullshit articles like the OP ,it's pretentious twadal that switches the majority off.

In other words you don't understand a single syllable of it. Admit it, you have no idea if it's twaddle or not.

Originally Posted by Looper

Originally Posted by Cujo

It redefines citizens as consumers

This is as far as I got. One of these bland trite sound-bite phrases that does not really mean or say anything.

Yes, part of being a citizen in a market economy is being a consumer of goods and services. Always has been always will be. So what?

As above. You are one of the biggest generators of meaningless over-complicated guff on here yet seem to have difficulties dealing with such a simple idea as citizen and consumer being different things. You even approach the right interpretation of the statement in the OP in your reply, being a citizen in a market economy does indeed imply that you are also a consumer but what is being said in the OP is that neoliberalism has redefined citizenship, with all it's complex rights and responsibilities, as being only and entirely equal to being a consumer. It's not difficult.

You know, there's nothing very impressive in a spurious anti-intellectualism, all it means is that you're a little bit (or, in Wasabi's case, very) thick.

BTW, for those (the majority I presume) who do understand the OP, IMO neoliberalism alone is not to blame for the current state of affairs. Its house philosophies, structuralism and postmodernism, are equally to blame. They have created a world in which nothing and in which everything is accepted as real and in which everything is as valid as everything else. A chaos in which right and wrong no longer exists and which puts witchcraft and ignorance on an equal level with science and learning. A world in which any moron believes he is entitled to have his opinion taken seriously no matter how bizarre, twisted, or foolish it might be. A world in which people like ENT or Jesus Jones are allowed to speak out as if they were normal people instead of being, as would be done in any sane world, quietly ignored or humanely and discreetly sterilised or gassed.