Did his LSD trip in 1975 turn him into a neolib?

what even is neoliberalism?

I stopped doing drugs after that trip, which was my first.

>This article challenges conventional readings of Michel Foucault by examining his
fascination with neoliberalism in the late 1970s. Foucault did not critique neoliberalism
during this period; rather, he strategically endorsed it. The necessary cause for this
approval lies in the broader rehabilitation of economic liberalism in France during the
1970s. The sufficient cause lies in Foucault’s own intellectual development: drawing on
his long-standing critique of the state as a model for conceptualizing power, Foucault
concluded, during the 1970s, that economic liberalism, rather than “discipline,” was
modernity’s paradigmatic power form. Moreover, this article seeks to clarify the
relationship between Foucault’s philosophical antihumanism and his assessment of
liberalism. Rather than arguing (as others have) that Foucault’s antihumanism
precluded a positive appraisal of liberalism, or that the apparent reorientation of
his politics in a more liberal direction in the late 1970s entailed a partial retreat from
antihumanism, this article contends that Foucault’s brief, strategic, and contingent
endorsement of liberalism was possible precisely because he saw no incompatibility
between antihumanism and liberalism—but only liberalism of the economic variety.
Economic liberalism alone, and not its political iteration, was compatible with the
philosophical antihumanism that is the hallmark of Foucault’s thought.

I keep meaning to read this article. Anyway here's the abstract.

They are to liberals like what neo-nazis are to nazis

Read some Foucault

Libertarianism but the government does slightly more stuff

you are a brainlet
and i aint meming around here
you're an actual, ugly-ass-gets-no-poissy-brainlet
lmaoing at ur life

a form of fascism

See

so what is it then

I think that might have brought a long brewing train of thought to a head, but I can't ignore his experiences in "fear and loathing on the campaign trail" and "the curse of llono" that paved the way for his resentment of the wage loop and his general distrust of the American Dream paradigm.

I always felt as if the race in "lono" and to some extent the motocross race in "Las Vegas" were portrayed in a manner that encouraged me to consider them as metaphors for the so-called "Rat Race" of American exceptionalism, consumerism and the merits of a square 9-5.

one of the best posts i've read on this entire website
never stop

Don't be ignorant. If you tried acid you'd probably stop even thinking of it as a drug in the same way as all the other chems out there. LSD really, really cleans out the cobwebs in the old noggin. It feels like your brain's bandwidth is expanded infinitely. And it can be life affirming too.

One time me and my friends did acid and watched a bunch of USSR propaganda videos all day.

By the end of the day, it was totally obvious that LSD was a weapon in my view.

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I quit drugs after LSD. If I don't drop acid once a year I'm back on the drug train. LSD keeps me clean.

sage :^)

so you mean this is his chronology:

1975 - becomes neoliberal

1977 - endorsed the decriminalization of pedophilia

1979 - endorsed the Iranian Revolution

Is he Tony Stark? This all makes no sense.

what is he doing in that pose? prestidigitating?

I was so lost in thought on LSD that I forgot I was on anything

You're just upset because you can't get legit acid

at what age did you realize that post-war neo-marxist have literally nothing interesting to say or to offer and that they are all, without exception, psuedo perverts who turned philsophy into a "rockstar" meme status in order to fuck their students?

Politics that seek to weaken existing state or popular institutions following the conceit that the private sector is more efficient and accountable

Literally the opposite

"liberal" as in economic and social norms. Its basically fascism since its capitalism with the government supporting the biggest business and crushing the free market with regulations.

>It's basically fascism

stop moralfagging you little bitch

>dude just like don't have any morals or standards like who cares about the quality of philosophical literature on a literature board?

lol tryhard

Nah neoliberalism usually leads to fewer regulations

I didn't have to try at all to make you look stupid, user :^)

A development from classical liberalism and social liberalism that sees the privatisation of public services, fiscal austerity, and a reliance on markets in all spheres, as the way to stabilise economies in the global market. It's associated with a deliberate ideological movement in the 1970s which succeeded in fighting trade unionism and worker bargaining power in favour of corporate interests. Despite what some people claim, the term is far from being vague since it's even referenced in documents by the International Monetary Fund, that note its failure in stimulating growth and employment.

What you have to realise is that left-wing intellectuals in the post-war period had to identify themselves away from the actual Marxist socialist tradition that was doing something concrete in their fight against imperialism, since those movements were too anti-liberal for the academic radicals to accept. This was a difficult prospect for the intellectuals, but they managed it well enough with the New Left movement, which was a neat combination of social liberalism and a capitulation to right-wing defeatist burgeois economics. The intellectuals convinced themselves that the revolution was going to consist in supporting marginalised groups and civil rights, since contemporary capitalism had solved the primary economic issues, and the concept of class was now too reductionist and problematic to accept. The mastery was then to apply something that sounded like a Marxist critique but utterly devoid of economic analysis, and instead focused on vague concepts like power.

For a good read on this phenomenon, try "Retreat from Class" by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

My most recent LSD trip made me a Nationalist. My most recent DMT trip made me a National Socialist.

i dont care how other people feel or think, im not stupid either lol im the smartest board on this website

neoliberal globalism is the true pill-rouge

>the term is far from being vague since it's even referenced in documents by the International Monetary Fund
As someone who is remotely educated on what you're talking about, this makes you look like a moron. Please stop.

libertarianism with commitment anxiety
why are you talking about neo-marxists in a foucault thread?

If you don't mind my asking: in both cases, why? And what were you beforehand?

>Did his LSD trip in 1975 turn him into a neolib?
No.

Your IQ decreased due to brain damage.

>Antihumanism is compatible with neoliberalism, ergo Faoucault is neoliberal.
>Article by an historian, mad at Foucault for doing better historical analyses than him.
>It's a fucking journalistic superficial collection of claims
>Looks at Foucaults writtings chronologically as if one led directily to the next.
Multiple Keks. Foucaults antihumanism only has to do with production of knowledge. He just saw humanism as a ballast when facing the production of valuable analyses of reality. aaand that's mostly it.

so not libertarianism lol

The state ought to exist only as a mere legal appendage and place of veridiction of the market logic. This way the capital eventually has to govern each aspect of each person's life.

me too and i started feeling stronger, in the sense of more stable. i now see how progressivism is mostly about spinning your wheels to nowhere

it made me see how most of the things we think, especially the one more anxiety inducing, are just narratives which fog your vision making you focus on one arbitrary thing and ignoring the other ones. like constantly entering into short circuits while all the electricity is outside and you become obtuse and blind.

you’re anti scientific. the brain gets rewired not damaged unless you fry it. it’s like a massive CBT in a day. damage can happen with prescriptions too

not the same guy, but these drugs make you extremely weary of the materialist thought involved in mainstream politics. National Socialism is a spiritual, pure rejection of such two dimensional ways of looking at the world.

Second. I took it when I was 15 and just stopped caring about school. Seemed stupid to care about shit like my 'permanent record' afterwards. Kind of ironically I began doing better.

True. Neomarxists are for the most part lazy. Instead of arming themselves and advocating for class struggle, they sit in their comfy chairs and write books. "What can we learn from the Soviet Union?" They ask themselves. "I'm sure my abstractions and theories will help the working class." They say. Meanwhile western economies are already advanced enough for socialism.

It inevitably leads to corporate lobbyists and in some cases literal dictators (see South America over the last 100 years) controlling the state to their own ends. So by Mussolini's own definition, it's at least proto-fascism, neoliberals make the mistake of assuming you can de-regulate without something else (corporate oligarchy) filling the power void

You're thinking of corporatism, which is not fascism. Corporatism is one of a few ways of managing interest groups, and it is the way fascism seeks to go about things, but it is by no means isolated to fascism and is by no means the same as fascism.

God damn I really hope we aren't going to have a century of oscillating fascism with genocidal nationalists and multicultural libertarians trading power for eight years at a time

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