Category Archives: neoliberalism

A Response to The One Percent

Posted on November 1, 2025 by greg

According to a Congressional Budget Office report, you need at least $787,712 in income per year to make the top 1%, but this varies by where you live. As of 2023, the top 1% of American households owned 30.0% of … Continue reading →

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Understanding Trump’s Use of Gaslighting

Posted on August 1, 2025 by greg

Gaslighting behavior has always been present in history, to a degree. It is par for the course whenever a person or entity wants to exert as much control as possible over others. By some accounts, politicians’ lying is a rational … Continue reading →

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Response to the Failure of Trickle-Down Economics

Posted on June 1, 2025 by greg

Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy may not be reinvested in ways that benefit the broader economy, and may instead be used for other purposes. Continue reading →

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Project 2025: a Blueprint for Corporate Dystopia

Posted on April 15, 2025 by greg

Corporate dystopia is a future or alternate history where corporate power has lead to an oppressive society, a society that fails to meet at least some peoples needs, or otherwise fits the typical definitions of a dystopia. Continue reading →

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How Our Loneliness is Feeding Authoritarianism

Posted on March 15, 2025 by greg

Throughout the 16th century, loneliness was often evoked in sermons to frighten churchgoers from sin – people were asked to imagine themselves in lonely places such as hell or the grave. But well into the 17th century, the word was … Continue reading →

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 When Symbolic Violence Turns into Symbolic Warfare

Posted on February 15, 2025 by greg

The title, The Fountainhead, refers to the source of human progress which, according to Rand, is ego – act on the virtue of rational self-interest. By 2018 Ayn Rand and her novels had become widespread cultural reference points among wealthy … Continue reading →

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Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction

Posted on February 1, 2025 by greg

Research, conducted on humans and macaque monkeys, concludes that our ability to focus is designed to work in bursts of attention, rather than uninterruptedly. For instance, while it may seem that you are continuously focusing on reading this article, the … Continue reading →

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Trump As the Conduit for the Alt Right: The Consequences

Posted on January 1, 2025 by greg

Digital media has played a significant role in the rise of right-wing populism, facilitating the circulation of extremist propaganda. Around the world populist movements are wreaking economic destruction and social turmoil in the name of moral principles. The biggest takeaway … Continue reading →

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Politics of Fear: Identifying the Need for Change

Posted on October 23, 2024 by greg

Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support. Continue reading →

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How Propaganda Influences Opinions and Behaviours

Posted on September 1, 2024 by greg

In The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, Hayek argued that government planning, by crushing individualism, would lead inexorably to totalitarian control. It came to the attention of some very wealthy people, who saw in the philosophy an opportunity to … Continue reading →

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