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I follow Richard J Murphy for his take on economics. But during his daily video output he sometimes goes slightly off piste.

Here, during this short video, he speaks very well on the epidemic of fear in our country. It is a very thought provoking piece and one many I'm certain will relate too.


 
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I follow Richard J Murphy for his take on economics. But during his daily video output he sometimes goes slightly off piste.

Here, during this short video, he speaks very well on the epidemic of fear in our country. It is a very thought provoking piece and one many I'm certain will relate too.



I thought it would be another pointless new thread, but that's an important analysis.
 
I follow Richard J Murphy for his take on economics. But during his daily video output he sometimes goes slightly off piste.

Here, during this short video, he speaks very well on the epidemic of fear in our country. It is a very thought provoking piece and one many I'm certain will relate too.



Thanks for that. When you say “many I’m certain will..”, does that include yourself?

I do think it was worth sharing, but it just always intrigues me a bit when people post stuff but depersonalise it, kind of.
 
Is the enemy of love.


Enjoyed that as an interesting watch irrespective of how robust an analysis it is or isn't. I would make two observations.

Firstly, it doesn't emphasize enough that whilst neoliberalism imposes this framework of fear it's advocates are not people who excel within it; they are people who actively exempt themselves from having to operate within it's supposed rules.

Secondly, for the fearless curious manager analogy I have this nagging feeling that he's overlooked someone else who fits the bill better than Southgate. Catalonian fella, names on the top of my tongue...
 
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I've seen a few of his videos and they follow the same pattern, sprinkle a few choice facts, ignore others and come to the same conclusion time and time again, it's always the fault of those nasty neoliberals.

That's not to say the neoliberals are not at fault for some things, even a lot of things, but with him it's everything all the time.

In this video he's returning to one of his favourite themes, the power oppression narrative.

A power oppression narrative describes how dominant storytelling shapes, justifies, and maintains systemic imbalances of power. It exposes how those in control use narratives to legitimize inequality,

But the never in doubt conclusion presented here is a bit of a stretch, even for him, it begs the question if the national team lived in fear of failure as a direct result of a neoliberal fabricated anxiety that infected the England players, and the rest of us presumably, and that it was this anxiety that was the root cause of the England team's numerous loses, then how different were the societies that produced the winners?

Errrr? Uummm? Time for a cuppa tea.

PS: Want to see the same conclusion again? The one explaining the rise of Reform doesn't disappoint, in fact pick any one of his videos, different topic but always the same conclusion. Idealogues, even educated ones, are trapped in an endless cycle of rinse and repeat, the only pleasure one gets is to see how he shoehorns the same ending to every story.

And quelle surprise today's video is....



Next week "How Neoliberals Stole My Girl Friend".
 
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I find him an interesting fellow. Doesn't just rage against the machine of what's gone SO wrong since 1979... he offers reasons and solutions. His ideas re national economics and (lack of) double entry bookkeeping i find particularly interesting. Dont claim to understand it all, but he knows what hes on about. Hes lived it. Doing actual corporate accountancy for many years.

For anyone else interested in opinions about monetary politics that actually offers reasons and potential solutions, this guy is over here at the mo doing the rounds and has firm, workable ideas about taxing the robber barons

I didnt realise Bezos is such scumbag he wangled a cheque out of the tax (IRS) the other year.
 

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