/44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asd99-96e754

In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink’s sofa. It’s a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order. Why can’t the liberal establishment accept that the 2008 crisis would eventually have political consequences? Why can’t liberals explain why they keep losing? Why can’t they offer anything but more of the same?

Symptoms:

  • Incredulity and denial of political change
  • Unwillingness to take responsibility
  • Moralisation
  • No belief in political causation (things just happen)
  • Fetishising disinformation
  • Elite persecution complex
  • Hysteria & catastrophism
  • Nostalgia for a very recent past & rewriting history
  • Repetition compulsion

 

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