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3/ Thatcher declared, “There is no alternative.” It’s capitalism all the way down & all the better when clothed in the raiment of tradition & religion, a beatific vision of a heavenly city of corporate capital, a pecuniary surrogate for the Eternal Gospel. ?s=20

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Quoted by@Msongini @moshik_temkin @samhaselby Striking, even then, how aware folk were of her impact upon national character - the pivot from a social fabric in which, no matter how flawed, stumbling or archaic, gentillesse still effectively functioned as a cultural counterpoint to the rank pathologies of materialist excess.Quoted by@moshik_temkin 1/ Last Days. “News is the last addiction before what?” - Delillo. The Eschatological Event, a classic instance of therapeutic ‘intervention’; a substrative shift in global ‘attention span’. Simply stated, where US media goes, so goes the planetary paradigm. Image: 12/17/2001Quoted byTime to end the economic logic of feeding the attention span, outrage. ?s=20 https://x.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/1372666579742306308