Thanks for that James. Tracking the sources of The Great Institutional Heist of our system of social administration by an unrepresentative swill of neo-clericalized postmodernist trained authoritarians & dogmatists is important work.
I would only humbly add that while this movement has a very loosely organised 'personnel department' of driver ideologues that has emerged out of social administrator training institutions ('universiries') since at least the 1970s, none of this explains why they have accumulated such enormous leverage using ideas that are faith based rather than rational & represent a conscious abandonment of The Enlightenment.
The sobering reality is that modern rational thinking has collapsed in favour of iconic word plays & gestalts,
Peter Boghossian recently brutally exposed the genre as little better than a 'poetic' stream of consciousness enriched with suggestive jargon, in the same way as an earlier group of wags exposed 'avant garde' poetry in the Ern Malley Affair in Australia in the ''40s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley_hoax).
Call me a shameless old Marxist if you like, but to get such a bizarre outcome erupting out of our cultural face requires more than plotting the course of a collective intellectual amnesia,.orchestrated by some kind of perverse ideological demonology.
Something really big is happening that is equivalent to the religious disturbances that came out of the Reformation & Counter Reformation, as the Mediaeval world declined, pressaging the rise of capitalism & the modern nation state.
We need some fundamental analytical theory of what has been happening to capitalism, its social relations of production & consumption & the culture it has spawned since the 1960s.
I call it Indulgence Capitalism, whereby an economy & culture of disciplined needs & wants has given way to fantasies of desire & satiating them as quickly as possible without any regard for the longer term ecological or governance consequences, by deregulating & privatizing the economic & social system from top to bottom.
After 3 generations, the carnage is now palpable as our ecological, social, existential & intellectual commons infrastructures disintegrate & pathologize in front of us, as we start our journey into a post modern 'disaggregation' into some version of 'Defensive Capitalism Lite'
Wonderful read. This is the time to question government and media subversion. They divide through race victimhood and affirmative action.
Thanks for that James. Tracking the sources of The Great Institutional Heist of our system of social administration by an unrepresentative swill of neo-clericalized postmodernist trained authoritarians & dogmatists is important work.
I would only humbly add that while this movement has a very loosely organised 'personnel department' of driver ideologues that has emerged out of social administrator training institutions ('universiries') since at least the 1970s, none of this explains why they have accumulated such enormous leverage using ideas that are faith based rather than rational & represent a conscious abandonment of The Enlightenment.
The sobering reality is that modern rational thinking has collapsed in favour of iconic word plays & gestalts,
Peter Boghossian recently brutally exposed the genre as little better than a 'poetic' stream of consciousness enriched with suggestive jargon, in the same way as an earlier group of wags exposed 'avant garde' poetry in the Ern Malley Affair in Australia in the ''40s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley_hoax).
Call me a shameless old Marxist if you like, but to get such a bizarre outcome erupting out of our cultural face requires more than plotting the course of a collective intellectual amnesia,.orchestrated by some kind of perverse ideological demonology.
Something really big is happening that is equivalent to the religious disturbances that came out of the Reformation & Counter Reformation, as the Mediaeval world declined, pressaging the rise of capitalism & the modern nation state.
We need some fundamental analytical theory of what has been happening to capitalism, its social relations of production & consumption & the culture it has spawned since the 1960s.
I call it Indulgence Capitalism, whereby an economy & culture of disciplined needs & wants has given way to fantasies of desire & satiating them as quickly as possible without any regard for the longer term ecological or governance consequences, by deregulating & privatizing the economic & social system from top to bottom.
After 3 generations, the carnage is now palpable as our ecological, social, existential & intellectual commons infrastructures disintegrate & pathologize in front of us, as we start our journey into a post modern 'disaggregation' into some version of 'Defensive Capitalism Lite'
Ho hum....