I’m just coming from reading up on AIER, a liberterian think thank that used to be the only American anti-lockdown source. Their writing is getting increasingly divorced from reality as their free market ideology underpins their entire approach to the lockdown. They are sobbing for austerity and tearing their hair out over the growing debt. They can’t grasp that the entire system is shifting FOR capitalism.
It’s a breath of fresh air to read a bit of analysis that understands that the market isn’t collapsing over a few people’s hypochondria. It is gobbling up power with every additional insane covid action, no matter how much money they print away.
thank you, Frieda. Indeed, the libertarian analysis is twisted, to say the least. I've read somewhere that they actually indulge in the fantasy that the WEF are "communists".
Would love to hear how eco-politics and the coming (aka already here) climate crisis square with this for you, in terms of crisis capitalism but also as a shit-your-pants, can't sleep-at-night, mega-crisis (and how those two might be intertwined). When I imagine Covid as an assisted readymade, its easy to imagine that freedoms will be limited in a way in which many of us might actually like them to be (ie. if I'm told I can't board an airplane, and that doing such is henceforth only reserved for the wealthy, my ethical dilemma is solved), but this seems implausible too, given that the profit model is so geared towards scale. The current 'wealth transfer' might be a way of re-distributing in advance of scaling back. But this all sounds so conspiratorial.
Anything that the ruling class has become uncomfortable with is now branded a "conspiracy theory". It used to be called investigate journalism. For example, the fact that BioNtech hasn't produced anything of relevance since its founding in 2008, and mysteriously, after it IPO'd in 2019 (right after Bill Gates offered considerable "support", meeting with Sahin at the WEF forum in 2019) developed the go-to vaccine, started flooding CEO pockets, should be background research done by journalists. Because journos however now act as foot soldiers for the state and capital, this kind of information has become the task of marginal groups, or the rare journalist like Max Blumenthal. Easier to brand as a conspiracy theory. What, in the context of Covid, has "proven" to be "just a conspiracy theory", has never been successfully answered by anyone I know. For all I know, even the most unlikely and remote theory of injected microchips is slowly getting normalised and turning out to have substance. https://www.newsweek.com/people-get-microchips-implanted-that-include-vaccine-records-amid-new-covid-restrictions-1655916
I’m just coming from reading up on AIER, a liberterian think thank that used to be the only American anti-lockdown source. Their writing is getting increasingly divorced from reality as their free market ideology underpins their entire approach to the lockdown. They are sobbing for austerity and tearing their hair out over the growing debt. They can’t grasp that the entire system is shifting FOR capitalism.
It’s a breath of fresh air to read a bit of analysis that understands that the market isn’t collapsing over a few people’s hypochondria. It is gobbling up power with every additional insane covid action, no matter how much money they print away.
thank you, Frieda. Indeed, the libertarian analysis is twisted, to say the least. I've read somewhere that they actually indulge in the fantasy that the WEF are "communists".
This article ruled.
left neoliberalism vs right neoliberalism. exactly.
Very interesting
Would love to hear how eco-politics and the coming (aka already here) climate crisis square with this for you, in terms of crisis capitalism but also as a shit-your-pants, can't sleep-at-night, mega-crisis (and how those two might be intertwined). When I imagine Covid as an assisted readymade, its easy to imagine that freedoms will be limited in a way in which many of us might actually like them to be (ie. if I'm told I can't board an airplane, and that doing such is henceforth only reserved for the wealthy, my ethical dilemma is solved), but this seems implausible too, given that the profit model is so geared towards scale. The current 'wealth transfer' might be a way of re-distributing in advance of scaling back. But this all sounds so conspiratorial.
Anything that the ruling class has become uncomfortable with is now branded a "conspiracy theory". It used to be called investigate journalism. For example, the fact that BioNtech hasn't produced anything of relevance since its founding in 2008, and mysteriously, after it IPO'd in 2019 (right after Bill Gates offered considerable "support", meeting with Sahin at the WEF forum in 2019) developed the go-to vaccine, started flooding CEO pockets, should be background research done by journalists. Because journos however now act as foot soldiers for the state and capital, this kind of information has become the task of marginal groups, or the rare journalist like Max Blumenthal. Easier to brand as a conspiracy theory. What, in the context of Covid, has "proven" to be "just a conspiracy theory", has never been successfully answered by anyone I know. For all I know, even the most unlikely and remote theory of injected microchips is slowly getting normalised and turning out to have substance. https://www.newsweek.com/people-get-microchips-implanted-that-include-vaccine-records-amid-new-covid-restrictions-1655916
A late comment: A liberal against state intervention is a liberal not (yet) bankrupt.