The book opens with the following quotation which seems to describe much better why I get banned from the fofblog in one paragraph than I’ve been able to explain in a whole blog!
Yes, but our sense of having lost the tradition of the Enlightenment is tied to the complete reversal of our vision of the world that has been imposed by the neoliberal vision that dominates today. I think (and here, in Germany, I can make this comparison), I think that the current neoliberal revolution is a conservative revolution – in the sense that one spoke of a conservative revolution in Germany in the thirties – and a conservative revolution is a very strange thing: it’s a revolution that restores the past and yet presents itself as progressive, a revolution that transforms regression into progress – to the extent that those who oppose this regression seem themselves to be regressing. Those who oppose terror come to seem like terrorists. It’s something that we have both experienced: we voluntarily classify ourselves as archaic – in French, we are called ringards (oldtimers), arrierés (outdated).
Pierre Bourdieu (The Nation, 3rd July, 2000)
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