# Nettime 12/02/23
Dear Brian and other nettimers.
It is not an understatement to say that we are at the doorstep of a
potential apocalypse; tragically following on the lingering residue of
COVID and all the social trauma that continues to follow in its wake.
The neoliberal paradigm is a global phenomenon, with few exceptions; it
mobilizes an array of economic and political permutations selling the
same lies and false promises. It represents and promotes a materiality
of false consciousness window dressed in seductive paraphernalia.
What confounds us at this moment is the sense of political impotency;
not because of ignorance, the present political conflicts have been well
described and analyzed. Yet, the vehicles of resistance appear
incapable of deterring a global political elite that has walled itself
off from meaningful discourse, criticism or a necessary change of
course. Within this neoliberal paradigm democracy becomes nothing more
than a hollowed out commodity with a rapidly deteriorating shelf life.
Nevertheless there exists a few grams of optimism: As in the past the
capacity for progressive change arises at the local level where people’s
voices can be validated collectively; where forms of resistance are
imagined and made real. Otherwise our fate is left in the hands of a
corporate elite and their political enablers who abandoned any moral
compass long ago.
allan
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