What Neoliberalism Rewards

Neoliberalism is feminine by nature. It rewards those who stand up to it and impose their will.

An iron-clad inner structure, a meticulous sense of discipline, a rigid carapace of duty, an unbreakable focus, and a constant process of self-regulation – these are the qualities that neoliberalism does everything to destroy. These are also the qualities that it rewards. The perfect neoliberal subject is emotionally dysregulated, weak-willed, driven by his whims, and convinced that “duty” and “obligation” are dirty words. Neoliberalism repays him for this obedience to its precepts with poverty, illness, and painful internal disorders.