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I want to get a critical perspective on my own filter bubble. Taking a superficial look around myself I see certain ideas of the progressive left mixing with neo liberalism evolving into something that I stumbled upon being called "progressiv neoliberalism" or "neoliberal multiculturalism" [1]. I identify this ideology as a widespread believe system among people of my age in and around the universities. | I want to get a critical perspective on my own filter bubble. Taking a superficial look around myself I see certain ideas of the progressive left mixing with neo liberalism evolving into something that I stumbled upon being called "progressiv neoliberalism" or "neoliberal multiculturalism" [1]. I identify this ideology as a widespread believe system among people of my age in and around the universities. | ||
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Slogans I came up with so far: | Slogans I came up with so far: | ||
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- You can be & become whatever you want to be (if you work hard enough). | - You can be & become whatever you want to be (if you work hard enough). | ||
-> a paradigm often featured in Disney Films | -> a paradigm often featured in Disney Films | ||
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For my research I am trying to finally read some of the classical literature (Adorno, Marx) but also some new stuff about the link between identity politics and neo liberalism (Francis Fukuyama, identity) but also some contemporary critique on capitalism (Byung Chul-Han) and last but not least i found a theorist that discussing the problematic alliance between (feminist) identity politics and capitalism (Nancy Fraser). | For my research I am trying to finally read some of the classical literature (Adorno, Marx) but also some new stuff about the link between identity politics and neo liberalism (Francis Fukuyama, identity) but also some contemporary critique on capitalism (Byung Chul-Han) and last but not least i found a theorist that discussing the problematic alliance between (feminist) identity politics and capitalism (Nancy Fraser). | ||
My speech: | My speech: | ||
Picture a bee. It cannot fly, spoken from the perspective of physics, but it does it anyway. | Picture a bee. It cannot fly, spoken from the perspective of physics, but it does it anyway. | ||
It's the mindset, friends. Focus on what you want, not how you can get it. Then you will lift off. | It's the mindset, friends. Focus on what you want, not how you can get it. Then you will lift off. | ||
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Follow me and let us wake up together, to let the dream come true. | Follow me and let us wake up together, to let the dream come true. | ||
Let's do it. Together. Change can be fun :-) | Let's do it. Together. Change can be fun :-) | ||
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Ritual Magic + Progressiv Neoliberalism | |||
Ritual Magic: | |||
- Man is made to evolve („sich weiter zu entwickeln“) | |||
- Storytelling is basically casting spells | |||
- Get control of yourself and thus your mind, the universe, through rituals | |||
- Focus itself is to be achieved | |||
Progressive Neoliberalism: | |||
- Ideas of self improvement and discipline, rooted in the protestant work ethic, also developing yourself is becoming more of a trend according to Byung Chul-Han for example | |||
- Storytelling is used to sell, especially in contemporary marketing | |||
- Get control through self surveillance | |||
- Focus is a mean to maximize utilities (example: the paradigm of minimalism amongst the urban media people (digital nomads, the less you have, the more flexible you are) | |||
The major difference seems to be, that ritual magic is more focussed on the inside of the users, while progressiv neoliberalism in most examples leads to expressing yourself as some kind of brand to the outside world. It is pretty much about presenting the world an idea about yourself via social media, in applications and so on. But this is not necessarly contradictional to the ideas of ritual magic. | |||
Julien Blanc seems to be the perfect example of an individual between both ideas. He is advertising self improvement through meditation, using is own scandalous story as a pick up story to present himself as reformed, by staging the manifest evidence for his businees model. | |||
He also is very much a metaphora for capitalism itself – change is only giving in to, when no other way of growth seems possible. He pulled back from the public after he got critisized for his appearences as a pick up artists. Then he changed is business model, but there is hints that he barely changed; just the way global capitalism reacts to contemporary critisism by environmental activists, feminists and minorities, but does not its basic modus operandi. | |||
Slogans: | |||
The pursuit of enlightenment (illumination, epiphany). | |||
Your mind, your word, your world. | |||
Find yourself, and win free spirtual counselling. | |||
Sources: | |||
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalismus | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalismus | ||