Neoliberal Meritocracy, The Authors Suggest, Has Created A Cutthroat Environment In Which Every Person
Neoliberal meritocracy, the authors suggest, has created a cutthroat environment in which every person is their own brand ambassador, the sole spokesman for their product (themselves) and broker of their own labor, in an endless sea of competition. As Curran and Hall observe, this state of affairs “places a strong need to strive, perform, and achieve at the center of modern life,” far more so than in previous generations.
Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss
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It’s not hard to see parallels between the three dimensions of perfectionism and so-called “call-out culture,” lately the hegemonic tendency on the Left: a condition in which everyone watches everyone else for a fatal slip-up, holding themselves to impossibly high standards of virtuous self-effacement, and being paralyzed with the secret (again, not unfounded) fear that they’re disposable to the group, that their judgment day is around the corner. The pattern is of a piece with other manifestations of neoliberal meritocratic perfectionism, from college admissions to obsessive Instagram curation. And because it divides rather than unites us, it’s no way to build a movement that ostensibly seeks to strike at the heart of power.
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“You don’t miss college, you miss communism”
“Assemblers” by Yaroslav Krestovsky (1975)
"The Earth is listening" painting by Mikhail Pyaskovsky, USSR, 1988.
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Mcdonalds drive-thru: do you want the meal or just the sandwich?
Data: uuuuuh hold on
*fishes something out of his pocket*
Data: Tasha what do i do?
Data's Tasha Yar posthumous hologram: get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days
*stuffs it back in his pocket*
Data: yes please, the meal would be great
Rudolf Bauer Space, 1932
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