via Zombie Neoliberalism by Dan Hassler-Forest on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds.
An excellent public lecture ‘Zombie Education: The Cultural Logic of Neoliberalism,’ given in the student-occupied Bungehuis (University of Amsterdam, Humanities Faculty) on 17 February 2105 by Dan Hassler-Forest. Recorded by an audience member.
“Part of what makes cinema so potent is the way even its most outlandish characters and narratives burrow into and fuse with our own stories and identities. When the dominant medium of our age — both as art form and industrial practice — is in the hands of one gender, what may start out as harmless escapist fantasies can, through repetition and amplification, become distortions and dangerous lies.” Anne Hornaday, Washington Post.
Peter Schiff when arguing for eliminating minimum wage and advocating that people should be “free to choose employment at $2/hr” tells Sam Bee: “I believe in the principles this country was founded on” I assume he means slavery >:/
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.” The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith predicted “social entrepreneurship” 250 years before the BS was discovered by Business School administrators lol!
when plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it (Frederic Bastiat)
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 