My last piece ‘Six New Year Messages & my wish for 2018’, drew a thought-provoking response in the comments section from Andy Crow, a guy who very helpfully sends me his feedback and thoughts on some of the issues I raise here. In particular, this comment got me thinking:
“My thought of the day is that we can have Neoliberalism or we can have Democracy, but we cannot have both. We cannot even pretend to have both for much longer I suspect” – Andy Crow
This has been bubbling away in the background for a few days. In short…and by way of a nice change for one of my missives…here is the conclusion I have arrived at:
- You can have democracy or you can have neo-liberalism, but you cannot have both
- You can have peace or you can have neo-conservatism, but you cannot have both
- If you want neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, they are a perfect fit. Just don’t pretend you care about peace and democracy
It’s make your mind up time folks.
I hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes
MarkGB
P.S. If you would like to read my thoughts on what a transition to 'peace and democracy' would look like (in the US) - I wrote a piece last September which goes into detail on the fundamental issues, and some of the solutions I believe are necessary. You can find it here:
https://renegadeinc.com/insidious-nature-of-power/
or here:
http://www.markgb.com/blog/2017/9/4/the-insidious-nature-of-power