Commodification-Neoliberalization of Education and Mental Perception

The neoliberal social imaginary [illusion, paradigm] has become so dominant that for most people, it is natural and unquestioned. … Neoliberalism favors the already rich and powerful….

Your world and perceptions are dominated by neoliberal paradigms and policies.

So you might as well learn about how this affects you.

In the United States, the term neoliberal is often confusing because it is often thought of as a new version of liberalism… The neoliberal social imaginary [illusion, paradigm] has become so dominant that for most people, it is natural and unquestioned. … Neoliberalism favors the already rich and powerful….

Here I will provide the full text and a few excerpts of the attached PDF article. This copy below of the article has my notes and highlights; if you want a clean/unmarked copy then see my post from last night that has the original article and several more in the same theme.

Neoliberalism And Education Policy

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1. Basically, neoliberalism is a bullshit renaming of privatization whereby rich people/organizations hijack public utilities and services (everything from public water, public electricity, public resources, public education, etc) in the culty-religious fog of “free markets” and “free trade” and “choice” and “freedom” and “as if guided by an invisible hand” and “self-regulating” and the religious-cult derivative “market fundamentalism” which is analogous to religious fundamentalism, ie, the cult of capitalism.

   

2. They depend on their government influence and the government infrastructure, yet they profess that they want “small government” which basically means they want whatever government that they can control.

3. This is precicely how and why large corporations and techno-geek imbeciles are running America’s educational system independent of democratic, public, or local input.

See final version of ADMINISTRATIVE ANARCHY IN AMERICAN ACADEMIA [PDF+VIDEO+EBOOK]