"...Within a post-neoliberal context, the goals of the marketplace, and its methods of operation, are increasingly reflected in the organization of education. This relationship ensures that students are indoctrinated into a monolithic worldview devoid of social critique or alternative social visions. Successful ideologies such as neoliberalism typically seek to naturalize their assumptions and present them as self-evident
or the only option available. ...
.... Democracies are only meaningful to the extent citizens are offered genuine political options at both the theoretical and practical levels.Neoliberal capitalism undeniably generated its own considerable level of multifaceted and sustained violence. Whether it was the widespread elimination of social programs, the paucity of decent employment opportunities, the dramatic rise in poverty, or the more overt violence of Seattle and Quebec City, neoliberalism was, as Peter McLaren so aptly described it, “Capitalism with the gloves off.” But this was a capitalism still basking in the delight of Soviet socialist collapse. It was
a capitalism portrayed as the best of all possible worlds and a system destined to deliver wealth and happiness to those, as Prime Minister Harper put it, “play by the rules.”
However, the facade and promise of neoliberal capitalism collapsed in concert with the housing bubble created by greedy Wall Street investment houses. The subsequent trillion dollar bailout in the USA merely underscored the control a small percentage of the population enjoys over the shape of our society. .. We are now once again encouraged to believe that the recovery and restoration of this same system is both possible and desirable, a message conveyed by corporate friendly governments and their tools of mainstream media deception..."
John Dale and Emery Hyslop-Margison, Paulo Freire: teaching for freedom and tranformation
or the only option available. ...
.... Democracies are only meaningful to the extent citizens are offered genuine political options at both the theoretical and practical levels.Neoliberal capitalism undeniably generated its own considerable level of multifaceted and sustained violence. Whether it was the widespread elimination of social programs, the paucity of decent employment opportunities, the dramatic rise in poverty, or the more overt violence of Seattle and Quebec City, neoliberalism was, as Peter McLaren so aptly described it, “Capitalism with the gloves off.” But this was a capitalism still basking in the delight of Soviet socialist collapse. It was
a capitalism portrayed as the best of all possible worlds and a system destined to deliver wealth and happiness to those, as Prime Minister Harper put it, “play by the rules.”
However, the facade and promise of neoliberal capitalism collapsed in concert with the housing bubble created by greedy Wall Street investment houses. The subsequent trillion dollar bailout in the USA merely underscored the control a small percentage of the population enjoys over the shape of our society. .. We are now once again encouraged to believe that the recovery and restoration of this same system is both possible and desirable, a message conveyed by corporate friendly governments and their tools of mainstream media deception..."
John Dale and Emery Hyslop-Margison, Paulo Freire: teaching for freedom and tranformation
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