00:00Music
00:20Imagine that the people of the Soviet Union
00:23had never heard of communism.
00:25That's more or less where we are.
00:30The dominant ideology of our times, for most people, has no name.
00:36Music
00:41If you mention it, most people respond with a shrug.
00:44What do you mean? What's that?
00:46Even people who have heard the name will struggle to define it.
00:51Its anonymity is both a symptom and a cause of its power.
00:57It was deliberately conceived and introduced
01:00as a way of establishing and changing the nature of power.
01:05This philosophy caused or contributed to
01:08the great majority of the crises that now confront us.
01:12The 2008 financial crisis.
01:15The ecological and environmental crises.
01:18The crisis of child poverty and rising inequality.
01:21The crisis of offshoring and the erosion of a tax base.
01:25We've seen a rising epidemic of self-harm and other forms of distress.
01:30Of loneliness, of alienation and the mental illness that accompanies them.
01:35Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is?
01:38Music
01:42.
01:48The
01:51Facultyَ
01:53John
01:55John
01:57John
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