SOSC 1510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-13: Naomi Klein, Rex Tillerson, Superbrands
17 Nov 2017
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No is not enough: resisting trump"s shock politics and winning the world we need. Shock doctrine- describes the quite brutal tactic of systematically using the public"s disorientation following a collective shock wars, coups, terrorist attacks, market crashes, or natural disasters to push through radical pro-corporate measures often called shocktherapy . Trump"s cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires tells us a great deal about the administration"s underlying goals. The goal of deconstruction of the administrative state, (by which he means the government regulations and agencies tasked with protecting people and their rights). What is happening is a naked corporate takeover, one of many decades in the making. Trump"s four pillars (goal of the trump regime page 5: deconstruct the state, attack the welfare and social state, unleash the fossil fuel, war against islamists and terrorists. A state of shock is what results when a gap opens between events and our ability to explain them.
