modern malaise - by Ava - bookbear express

a theory

We gave up on all the old ideologies of the 20th century, and we have no replacement. In the 80s Thatcher and Reagan broke down trade barriers and ceded government power to banks and corporations. This created a consumer world driven by debt, where everything was assessed by utility. Politics essentially “became a wing of management, saying that it could stop bad things from happening instead of imagining how things could be better.” Now politics feels like pantomime, with both parties bickering over social issues while neither has the political will to meaningfully affect the economy.…

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