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Hanif Kureishi (not writing about Luxon but spot on nonetheless): 
"We've replaced the search for knowledge with the pursuit of metric-driven self-optimisation. The power of the narcissist is always based on exclusion, oppression and humiliation, sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
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Exactly what comes to mind when I see that popular exhortation about 'building personal wealth'...
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Hanif Kureishi, born in Bromley, London, together with David Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux and others, they were all of what is known as the Bromley Contingent, I was born there as well but I got taken to Africa by my parents and missed out on exciting times in post war London unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley_Contingent
https://www.google.com/search?client=fir...SusieSouix
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(16-02-2025, 01:21 PM)Olive Wrote: Hanif Kureishi (not writing about Luxon but spot on nonetheless): 
"We've replaced the search for knowledge with the pursuit of metric-driven self-optimisation. The power of the narcissist is always based on exclusion, oppression and humiliation, sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
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sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
The perfect description of Neoliberalism.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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