My friend Clarissa on neoliberalism:

We need to stop wailing and wanting. We need to stand still for a bit and get a hold of ourselves. We are destroying something very imperfect for something much, much worse. There is no narrative that actually defends neoliberalism. Nobody has come up with an idea for why it’s good because there is no such narrative. This is something that simply can’t be defended. It seduces us by never even trying to argue its case. And we’ve accepted that like the weakest, most manipulable of pawns.

The same can be said of the technology imperative we see everywhere around us. Artificial Intelligence data centres use almost as much energy (and water resources) as Japan. There has been almost no public discussion of this. “It seduces us by never even trying to argue its case.”