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noam@libranet.de
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#Capitalism #Spectacle #Olympics

"Consider the Olympics, an event engineered to draw in the attention of the world. The Spectacle is not just the event itself, but rather its gravitational hold over the consciousness of hundreds of millions of people, whether they are watching it or not...

"The actual portion of people who truly cared about clownish burlesque caricatures of Greek gods or about female boxers before the Olympics is vanishingly small. Now, however, having the correct opinion about each of these determines whether you are a good person or an uneducated fascist โ€” your reaction to these events becomes a stand-in for virtue and a signal to others how they ought to classify you.

"Thatโ€™s the Spectacle. It is not just the hold these events have over our social relations, but also the apparent instinctual need we seem to have to react. However, those reactions are not instinctual at all, but rather the result of decades of fine-tuning the Spectacleโ€™s hold over our consciousness.

"In other words, our reactions, the internal mechanisms which trigger those reactions, and the compulsion to have a reaction at all have all been engineered into us. We are constantly drawn in, and feel we must be drawn in, and suddenly see each spectacle as the most urgent thing in the world."

rhyd.substack.com/p/the-woke-oโ€ฆ

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata โ˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป

[L]iberalism depends on illiberalism, and that's something that nobody wants to acknowledge. Working class life is much more authoritarian than the life of the middle class and the life of the upper class. And that the only way the upper class can enjoy their very free and open liberal life is to have very authoritarian vulgar working class people like police and soldiers and others enforcing it.

--- Caleb Maupin, source

#CalebMaupin #liberalism #capitalism #authoritarianism #military #police

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The End of the โ€œWorldโ€

By Paweล‚ Moล›cicki

Source: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-end-of-the-world/

The first in a series of these counter-revolutions was undoubtedly the #transformation of capitalism carried out in the West. Pier Paolo #Pasolini wrote about it, as usual, earlier than others: โ€œCapitalism today is the protagonist of a great internal revolution: it is transforming itself, in a revolutionary way, into neo-capitalism. Contrary to what I said earlier, I could say that the neo-capitalist revolution is putting itself in the role of a competitor to the world forces that are going to the left. In a sense, it is moving away to the left itself. And, oddly enough, while going (in its own way) to the left, it tends to embrace everything that goes to the left. In the face of this revolutionary, progressive and unifying neo-capitalism, an unprecedented sense of world โ€˜unityโ€™ has emerged.โ€[i

#capitalism #society #philosophy #future

The End of the โ€œWorldโ€ - The Philosophical Salon

And those who expected lightning and thunder Are disappointed. And those who expected signs and archangelsโ€™ trumps Do not believe it is happening now. Czesล‚aw Miล‚osz, A Song on the ... Read More

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata โ˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป

The neoliberal shift wasn't actually about shrinking the state, what it was about was about crushing collective power. And you see this with like the first moves that politicians like that and Reagan undertake when they come into power it was crush the labor movement. And there was a a discourse that surrounded this well so there was the physical assertion of the power of the state, there was the literal beating up of minors the use of the police to um to put them in their place. But there was this ideological shift as well which was you are not a worker you are not a citizen you are a consumer you are um you know an entrepreneur of the self right. And a lot of neoliberal policies were designed to push this it was like we will allow you to buy your own house we will privatize your pension you will be able to take out loads of debt your life will become this balance sheet of assets and liabilities and it's up to you to manage that. If you manage it well you will do well and you will succeed if you manage it badly you will fail and that will be entirely your own fault.

--- Grace Blakeley, in the interview How capitalism enslaved us all

#GraceBlakeley #neoliberalism #capitalism #individualism #politics

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