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“Neoliberal theorists are, however, profoundly suspicious of democracy. Governance by majority rule is seen as a potential threat to individual rights and constitutional liberties. Democracy is viewed as a luxury, only possible under conditions of relative affluence coupled with a strong middle-class presence to guarantee political stability. Neoliberals therefore tend to favour governance by experts and elites.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“High modernism is numinous through and through, as the work of art provides one of the last outposts of enchantment in a spiritually degenerate world. Postmodernism, with its notorious absence of affect, is post-numinous. It is also in a sense post-aesthetic, since the aestheticisation of everyday life extends to the point where it undermines the very idea of a special phenomenon known as art. Stretched far enough, the category of the aesthetic cancels itself out.”
― Culture and the Death of God
― Culture and the Death of God
“y así es forzoso que no sólo sea brevísima, sino miserable la vida de aquellos que con gran trabajo adquieren lo que con mayor han de poseer. Consiguen con su sudor lo que desean, y poseen con ansias lo que adquirieron con trabajo; y con esto no cuidan del tiempo, que pasando una vez, jamás ha de volver.”
― De la brevedad de la vida
― De la brevedad de la vida
“What the neo-conservatives do is to change the ‘peculiar ways’ in which such questions enter into debate. Their aim is to counteract the dissolving effect of the chaos of individual interests that neoliberalism typically produces. They in no way depart from the neoliberal agenda of a construction or restoration of a dominant class power. But they seek legitimacy for that power, as well as social control through construction of a climate of consent around a coherent set of moral values.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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