{"id":378255,"date":"2018-09-23T06:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-neoliberal-order-is-dying-time-to-wake-up\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T06:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:16:58","slug":"the-neoliberal-order-is-dying-time-to-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-neoliberal-order-is-dying-time-to-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neoliberal Order is dying: Time to Wake Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2018-09-15\/why-were-blind-to-the-system-destroying-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last blog post<\/a> I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives \u2013 supporting what we might loosely term our current \u201cneoliberal order\u201d \u2013 rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are, of course, deeply embedded in this neoliberal structure, are key promoters of the very opposite idea: that individuals or like-minded groups of people hold power; that they should, at least in theory, be held accountable for the use and misuse of that power; and that meaningful change involves replacing these individuals rather than fundamentally altering the power-structure they operate within.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, our political and media debates reduce to <em>who<\/em> should be held to account for problems in the economy, the health and education systems, or the conduct of a war. What is never discussed is whether flawed policies are really the fleeting responsibility of individuals and political parties or symptoms of the current neoliberal malaise \u2013 manifestations of an ideology that necessarily has goals, such as the pursuit of maximised profit and endless economic growth, that are indifferent to other considerations, such as the damage being done to life on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The focus on individuals happens for a reason. It is designed to ensure that the structure and ideological foundations of our societies remain invisible to us, the public. The neoliberal order goes unquestioned \u2013 presumed, against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/the-neoliberal-order-is-dying-time-to-wake-up\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last blog post I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives \u2013 supporting what we might loosely term our current \u201cneoliberal order\u201d \u2013 rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are, of course, deeply embedded in this neoliberal structure, are key promoters of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}