Category Archives: neoliberalism

Oligarchy

Posted on June 13, 2025 by camelotkidd

The problem with oligarchy is the capriciousness. Under a system of laws, there’s a known quality of acceptable behavior, while with oligarchy everything can change in an instant, as demonstrated with the Trump/Musk dust-up.  The problem with Musk is not … Continue reading →

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Malpractice

Posted on May 30, 2025 by camelotkidd

Thanks to decades of neoliberal economic malpractice it’s difficult, if not impossible, to run a small business in America. The last election made it clear that this state of affairs is a political problem as well as an economic one. … Continue reading →

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Lost in the Flood

Posted on May 23, 2025 by camelotkidd

In the wake of the 2024 beat-down, the Democrats and their various interest groups promised introspection–as in how the fuck did we get to a point where Trump could make it to the White House, not once but twice? But, … Continue reading →

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No Carrot, Just Stick

Posted on May 16, 2025 by camelotkidd

US diplomacy is significant for it’s lack of diplomacy. We don’t do diplomacy, we just issue edicts that if not obeyed lead to sanctions, covert-ops and invasions. The imperial rational was articulated by Karl Rove, in the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

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Apostasy

Posted on May 9, 2025 by camelotkidd

To be an intellectual is to be an apostate. In our neoliberal milieu, where everything has been commodified, intellectual thought, discourse and opinion has lost any of the verve that makes it precious and has thus become debased. Therefore, intellectualism … Continue reading →

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Into the Fire

Posted on April 25, 2025 by camelotkidd

Vastly unequal empires never end well. In his 2017 book The Great Leveler, Stanford historian Walter Scheidel, demonstrates how extreme inequality has been “resolved” throughout history. Unfortunately, Scheidel found that so far the only thing that has undone such inequality—the only … Continue reading →

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Pyrrhic

Posted on April 11, 2025 by camelotkidd

The billionaires who own our country hated the New Deal and they set out to undo it. They won and here we are. Over the past 47 years, according to the Rand Corporation, $50 Trillion in wealth has been redistributed … Continue reading →

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The Yeltsin Years

Posted on March 28, 2025 by camelotkidd

I’ve recently discovered that the DOGE-bags have a plan, and it’s not simply to move fast and break things. It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, and “seeks to implement authoritarianism with a combination of elite technocrats (as in the IT type, … Continue reading →

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Mangione Moment

Posted on March 14, 2025 by camelotkidd

How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading →

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Techno-Feudalism

Posted on March 7, 2025 by camelotkidd

The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading →

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