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7.2.25

Study and read

Interest in historical problems declined spectacularly in the 2000. Reading is not one of the major recreational pursuits in the middle class.

24.1.25

Neoliberal policy is when you systematically wage war on the very idea of the public sphere and the public good, of course the publicly owned bones of society — roads, bridges, levees, water systems — are going to slip into a state of such disrepair that it takes little to push them beyond the breaking point.

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Bloody-minded exploitation of human suffering: the disaster capitalism free-for-all.

Grotesque levels of inequality

Love alone doesn't change the world, it needed something stronger to help it out, something like justice.

23.1.25

Trump White House

The crucial lesson: leaders who are seen as representing neoliberal status quo are no match for the demagogues and neo-fascists.

Creating an atmosphere of chaos and destabilization.

22.1.25

Legalized political corruption around the world

Don't exist candidate just capable of beating Trump (a man who represents the worst of all that the culture is capable of) but more capable at getting at some of the underlying forces that supercharged Trump’s rise?

Don't exist bolder policies to fight grotesque levels of inequality?

Davos class

This is the hyper-connected network of banking and tech billionaires, elected leaders who are cozy with those interests, and Hollywood celebrities who make the whole thing seem unbearably glamorous.

The power of the Davos class exploded in the 1990s, with US president Bill Clinton and UK prime minister Tony Blair as charter members. Once out of office, both Blair and Clinton continued their involvement. The Clinton Foundation established the annual Clinton Global Initiative, a kind of “Davos on the Hudson” featuring a continuous parade of oligarchs who, rather than pay their taxes at a fair rate, publicly shared their plans to fix the world out of the goodness of their hearts.

Its mission can be summarized like this: there is now so much private wealth sloshing around our planet that every single problem on earth, no matter how large, can be solved by convincing the ultrarich to do the right things with their loose change.