What an excellent question.
You are absolutely right. I’m very neoliberal. Forget fluid borders, the whole texture of my life is neoliberal. I use the Forest app to track my productivity. I use Duolingo to learn German when I have no actual need to do that, and I have not broken my streak even on the day I had surgery. Or when I traveled internationally. Or on the day when I could barely speak after dental surgery. I’ll probably still be keeping the streak on the day of my funeral. This gives me great joy, and you won’t understand it if you aren’t completely neoliberal yourself.
I’m obsessed with my morning and evening routines, I have five trillion planners, I have a steps streak that is a whole performance. I have read every neoliberal self-help book and can wax poetic on deep focus for hours. I pursue several careers at the same time and change my opinions on everything regularly. What I don’t know about personal branding is not worth knowing.
Yes, I am neoliberal. I played against a much more ferocious form of neoliberalism than the one that has appeared so far in North America, and I won. Not only am I good at this shit, I love it. It is because I know and understand it so well that I say that for most people it’s the absolute death. Yes, you can win in the neoliberal game. But you need to be a very specific type of person with very specific kind of neuroses. Everybody else loses. Not because they are worse. Or better. But because that’s how this system works. Those 2,5 million nice, well-meaning, trusting people who watched the Candace Owens videos and took them seriously will not do well in it. Neoliberalism will chew them up and spit them out.
I personally am fine, though, yes.
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If you feel comfortable explaining, what specific types of neuroses do you think are these? I am asking as someone who is also very successful (malgré lui) at playing the neoliberal game, and I suspect that this has to do with my upbringing and personality (I am the person who posted a question about psychoanalysis a few months ago).
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People should know that I don’t use the word neurosis negatively or offensively. I could say instead personality type or way of being. The personality type that thrives on keeping the ego within the corset of severe self-control is a personality that will be happy in neoliberalism. If you can stand amidst the greatest tide of freedom and not be tempted or even consider dissolving yourself into it, you’ll be good.
If you can produce boundaries from within yourself, you’ll be fine. Most people, however, need externally imposed boundaries or they start crumbling. If you grew up having to boundary yourself up all the time for whatever reason, you might have developed both a skill and a need to do it.
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That makes perfect sense, thank you! I didn’t take the word “neurosis” negatively.
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