Social Dynamics
Colony to Collapse: A Psychological Autopsy of the Neoliberal Era
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A historical-psychological post-mortem that traces neoliberalism to colonial rent-seeking in Madeira. It frames atomization as a neurobiological assault fueling authoritarian killer clowns and uses complexity theory to show deregulation turning networks into mutual incendiary devices. The answer, a politics of belonging built on commons and public luxury.
Colony to Collapse: Part 6 – The Politics of Belonging: Rebuilding the Commons After Capitalism
·641 words·4 mins
Proposing a new restoration story based on deliberative democracy and the concept of public luxury.
Colony to Collapse: Part 5 – Tipping Points: Why Markets Cannot Solve the Earth Systems Crisis
·636 words·3 mins
Utilizing complex systems theory to explain the 2008 crash and the impending ecological collapse.
Colony to Collapse: Part 4 – The Atomized Self: Loneliness and the Rise of the Authoritarian Right
·606 words·3 mins
Connecting the neurobiology of social pain to the political ascent of the "killer clowns."
Colony to Collapse: Part 3 – The Great Tollbooth: Turning Public Goods into Private Rents
·674 words·4 mins
Analyzing how privatization and "rent-seeking" hollowed out the welfare state and concentrated global wealth.
Colony to Collapse: Part 2 - The Engineering of Consent: Building the Neoliberal International
·620 words·3 mins
Tracing the rise of corporate-funded think tanks and the deliberate dismantling of the social contract.
Colony to Collapse: Part 1 - The Anonymity of Power: How a Nameless Ideology Conquered the World
·700 words·4 mins
Investigating the origins of neoliberalism and its foundations in the "fairy tale" of colonial extraction.
