I'd also submit that your reluctant acceptance of neo-liberalism might have something to do with your relatively privileged position in a neoliberal world. Not relative to Bill Gates, but relative to at least half the population.
Joanna
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These are classic symptoms of being a cult, and reading Graeber only confirms that this tendency is well and alive. Quite frankly, I think these "movements" are intellectually bankrupt and have nothing to offer - zip, zilch, nada, zero - except their participatory rituals. They are nothing but secular versions of religious cults that are a dime a dozen in this "post-modern" world. While nothing forces me to be a part of these cults, this nonetheless leaves me sad because it makes it obvious that there is no viable counterweight to the neoliberal hegemony - at least one that I can identify with. The only moderately viable (in the sense getting popular support) counterweight is Islamist fundamentalism - but having to choose between the two, I'd take neoliberalism.
-- Wojtek
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