Naomi Klein: Say no to the Shock Doctrine
"Ours is an age when it is impossible to pry one crisis apart from all the others. They have all merged, reinforcing and deepening each other, like one shambling, multi-headed beast...
...the vultures are now buzzing. The business press is filled with articles about how the only way for Puerto Rico to get the lights back on is to sell off its electricity utility. Maybe its roads and bridges too.
"This is a phenomenon I have called the Shock Doctrine – the exploitation of wrenching crises to smuggle through policies that devour the public sphere and further enrich a small elite..."
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-28/say-no-to-the-shock-doctrine/
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"...moments of crisis do not have to go the Shock Doctrine route – they do not need to become opportunities for the already obscenely wealthy to grab still more. They can also go the opposite way. They can be moments when we find our best selves – when we locate reserves of strength and focus we never knew we had...
...There is also a long and proud history of crises sparking progressive transformation on a society-wide scale..."
