With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life—from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new “corporate state” distances itself from workers and minority groups, who become more disposable in a new age of uncertainty and manufactured fear.
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