Tag: society
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Being and Baking (Part II)
It is safe to say that psychoanalysts and philosophers don’t always get along, that statement has never been truer than when it comes to existentialism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. We are often distracted by things around us, often concepts of human making such as politics, work, religion, the economy and so on, they give our reality […]
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And Just Like That…
Business ontology was described by Mark Fisher: “Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business“. This mode of thought has led to the use of non-economic topics as a barrier […]
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Idea-ology: Neo-liberalism, where it started (part 3)
Over the past 40 years, neoliberalism has demolished trade unions and stripped away financial restrictions which has led to more wealth for people with money and a stagnation in wages for the rest of us. President Reagan imposed this in the USA and Thatcher did so in the UK. In later years, neoliberalism repurposed the […]
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Idea-ology: Doctrine for the Masses (Part 2)
Neo-liberals believe that the free market is the best way to organise society. They claim that the government should be just an administrator, not a supervisor or a player in the market, even to the point that private companies should provide services such as hospitals, schools and prisons. This is a common misconception, or a […]
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The Royals. Yay or Nay?
Royal scandal and claiming tax payers money. Isn’t Monarchy a bit dated for the 21st century?