Everybody Hates The Oligarchy

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Host Rick Wilson and special guests George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison – co-authors of the book "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) "– discuss how the 2008 financial crisis contributed to current conditions, including the erosion of democracy and an increasingly rentier economy, which have opened the door to authoritarian populism and manipulation of information on a mass scale. Follow George Monbiot at @GeorgeMonbiot, Peter Hutchison at @HutchisonPeter, and purchase their book The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) at fine booksellers everywhere. Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow us on X at @ProjectLincoln. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped in battle heart.
0:05.0	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:09.0	There is the United States of America. Good night and good luck.
0:17.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Lincoln Project Podcast.
0:19.0	I'm your host Rick Wilson, and today we have a really interesting book to talk about by two guests.
0:26.8	George Bambiot and Peter Hutchison have written a book called Invisible Doctrine,
0:30.9	the secret history of neoliberalism. Now, we're, this is one of those things that's sort of the magic of the Lincoln project.
0:38.0	You know, you have to break your old predicates about how things work. And I would have told you ten years ago that I was a
0:46.0	rabid free markets guy and I still believed for a long time that what we had in America was a free market system but we really don't and
0:56.5	it's been more and more obvious that this is not a system that's based on on market principles at all anymore and we might be
1:05.4	approaching this you know me more from the right and then more from the left but this is
1:09.2	a fascinating book I was reading it last night and it really does break down a lot of the
1:13.7	illusions about the fact that we in the West particularly we posture about
1:19.5	free market capitalism a lot but what we have ain't that. So with that I want to welcome you guys to the show. Thank you so much for coming on and tell me about the origin story of this book. I always ask for authors that that like where did this book come from in your
1:34.3	work tell me about you know what your big findings are and let's talk it through
1:39.3	about where you think the the actual global economy is versus the one we the sort of fairy story
1:44.7	we tell ourselves about it. So perhaps I could start off by answering the first
1:48.3	question. Peter and I have never met. We've made a film together but we have never actually met. We've never actually met. We've seen each other like this. He lives in California. I live in the UK.
2:00.0	I live in the UK.
2:02.0	I actually live in Brooklyn. I actually live in Brooklyn. I think... Oh sorry in Brooklyn I'm sorry
2:07.0	Peter yes, sorry, I live in Brooklyn and I live in the UK and we we so we've done the whole thing remotely which maybe is a first I'm not sure if there's any
2:16.4	book which has ever been written by two people together who haven't met but it started off and
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