https://chatgpt.com/share/695a9702-6df0-8003-8ab8-bbd5e850e9dd

claim: Neoliberal capitalism is the root cause of our problems

Neoliberal capitalism is the default religion of American civilization. Its sacrament is consumption; its gods are personal pleasure, corporate profit, and national security. It has very little to say about love. It has nothing to say about initiation. It tells young men that they are units of human capital, competing in a gamified marketplace, and that if they fail—economically, socially, romantically—it is their fault.

i once heard Daniel Schmachtenberger saying that the root cause is somehow believing in a root cause. or said differently that the cause of our metacrisis on polycrisis is X or Y but that this kind of reduction or analysis is intrinsically problematic. i want to remember what he said there