The most profound cultural technology that neoliberals invented was the idea that history had ended, and the creation of *new history* was simply not possible.
They brainwashed entire populations into seeing obvious moral fuckery as "complicated", into believing that the reason society kept falling farther and farther behind was because it was literally "impossible" to prevent it from dying.
I spent two hours on the phone with someone afraid that Trump would destroy all our institutions. s