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Ichingcarpenter

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2. Well I think his thought on neoliberalism and

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 08:51 AM

Dec 2015

false individualism has some truth to it .....

What is the core of neoliberal ideology? Firstly, that you are alone, that you are an individual competing with everybody else. Secondly, that the real distinction among human beings is between winners and losers, right? There's no more stable class identity, no more stable political identity – the real divide is between neoliberalism's winners and losers. And if you are a young person who has grown up in this capitalist environment, and you understand that actually you can never be a winner, what will you do?

. I think I will explore more with this guys writings and his book 'Heroes' is the one I'm told to start with.

Its a piece of the puzzle

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