Robot Emperor
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Edited Jul 25, 2014, 10:49
Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Maquand
Jul 25, 2014, 10:49
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A recommendation for the above. An elegy for the recently departed liberal democracy and desperately sad. It states that we are now right on the edge of being too late to save the rump of the public realm being destroyed by populist politics.
Main point is that the idealisation of the market and market values is more insidious than privatisation, how we are forced to put a value to values, to make inappropriate comparison of what were rights and are now privileges - decent housing, education, clean water, fair trials, healthcare, libraries etc.
Really good, heart breaking and frightening. The ideologically motivated carnage hasn't stopped yet. The believers in market forces are coming to resemble millennial Christians - Christ will not appear until all sin has been purged, save they believe that things will not get better until the market is unchallenged by any aspect of the state. That things have not got better after 30 years of dismantling is their proof of their thesis.
The market unchallenged created slavery.
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IanB
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Edited Jul 27, 2014, 05:19
Re: Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Maquand
Jul 25, 2014, 20:04
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Times Higher Education released a very good podcast interview with the author back in June - 50 minutes ish. Well worth a download.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Maquand
Jul 27, 2014, 12:01
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It sounds really good. Not sure I can cope with that level of woe at the moment though. Feels like every day I wake up to a world where's the cunts are winning more and more...
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IanB
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Edited Jul 28, 2014, 04:50
Re: Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Maquand
Jul 27, 2014, 18:28
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True. I am about half way through the equally enormous "Crossing the Rubicon" and often wonder why I am working so hard to make myself miserable. Sadly, since 2011 fiction, no longer really does it for me. It's politics or music biographies or nothing.
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