When your only chance at social and economic mobility lies in killing people or possibly being killed yourself. Anyone who remembers the Iraq War of 2003 remembers Jessica Lynch, the first “American hero” of that conflict. Her convoy had been ambushed behind enemy lines and she was the last soldier…
Tag: Neoliberalism
This is Neoliberalism, Part II: Alienation and Mass Sociopathy by Design
Human evolution taught us to work with each other. Neoliberalism teaches us to compete with each other. In Part I of this series, in which I listed the 10 Tenets of Neoliberalism, I stated the following as the third tenet: 3. Because the Market is an impartial and efficient distributor of…