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Busy Little Termites
I find it perversely amusing that while doing good is so damn hard, doing evil is easy. Doing evil is especially easy in the service of wealth and power. Take neoliberalism, a shape-shifting ideology so nefarious that its proponents … Continue reading
Accumulated Despair
Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading
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Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs
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Evil Is Easy (Part 2)
Wall Street, the too-big-to-fail-banks, and the financial industry control our lives for the worse. How did this come to pass? From the New Deal up until the 80’s finance was heavily regulated, staid, boring even. Finance was also a … Continue reading
Evil is Easy (Part 1)
Why is it that doing good is so hard while evil is easy? In my definition, doing good is cooperating with fellow citizens in a democratic manner to solve America’s numerous problems, while doing evil is playing on human … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Molnar, charter schools, Dismantling Public Education, divide and rule, education, evil is easy, good is hard, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, off-shoring, privatization, Ronald Reagan, so-called free trade, teachers, teachers unions, vouchers
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