09.30.07
Darwinism, the classic shock doctrine
One gets a little impatient with the left for fumbling the ball on Darwinian ideology. The birth of the shock doctrine in the wake of Adam Smith produced a mind that enters into the Darwinian worldview,
Birth of the Shock Doctrine.
The destruction of the ethics of altruism in the mystique of propaganda over natural selection is the most obvious giveaway to the ’shock them out of ethical restraint’ strain in otherwise scientific looking evolutionary theory. It is a lot easier for economists to ply value-free (psychopathic) economic legitimation in an environment where Darwinism prospers.
One reason the left is stuck here is, perhaps, that it has its own ’shock doctrine’ history. It is hard to exempt Stalin’s ‘economic shock treatment’ of the thirties from the condemnation of neoliberalism! There terror and torture were the specialty of the house on the grand scale.
Maybe the Chicago Boys plagiarized a bit in their Pinochet fantasies.