The synonym for neoliberalism is powerlessness
All are interconnected in this food chain
Each subservient to the other layer
Individual rights are championed
Collective decision making is reduced to a farce
Companies are the new empires
Knowledge is a hammer
Enlightenment is commodified
Consumption is Culture
Relationships of note are passé
In an era where twitter followers can be bought
We are all Data
Available to the highest bidder
Such is the ‘transaction cost’
Efficiency and Productivity are priceless
Social Darwinism is a close relative
Words are able to quell the pain
Well, not quite
Till a few voices are alive
An Arundhati here, Naomi there
Monbiot in the middle
A Vandana for the lecture circuit
Some wine and cheese for washing down the capitalist/activist guilt
The powerless will be muted
As the middle class are no better
Silenced with jobs taken away
Libel suits thrown at them
There is no better way than poverty to silence the rebel
