Consider “the unimaginability of any alternative to the neoliberal status quo.” Surely that’s a glove pulled inside-out. Neoliberalism generates such contingency and uncertainty as to undermine any status quo. It’s the status quo that is unimaginable.
Then again, have status quo’s ever been in practice as in theory? To paraphrase the international relations theorist, Hans Morgenthau: Excuse me, but just what status quo have the people committed themselves to? They haven’t, irrespective of what systems are said to do by virtue of their own structures.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 