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Steven Singer: Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again | Common Dreams Views

Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again | Common Dreams Views

Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again
New Gates documentary is a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy; a love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism.

Once upon a time, the world was run by rich men.
And all was good.
But then the world was conquered by other rich men.
And that is something the first group of rich men could not allow.
The three-part documentary goes live on Sept. 20. But the film's aims are clear from the trailer.
It's a vanity project about Bill Gates, the second richest man in the world.
By examining his mind and motivations, director and executive producer Davis Guggenheim will show us how Gates deserves his billionaire status and that we should allow him to use his philanthrocapitalist ventures to rule the world.


After all, shouldn't the best and richest among us make all the decisions?
Gates is the perfect poster child for old style neoliberalism.
It's a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy, a love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism.
But instead of showing the world why we need to return to democratic principlesstrengthen the common good and empower the people to govern themselves, some would rather continue the same plutocracy just with a different set of plutocrats at the wheel.
In the days of Obama, the Bushes and Clinton, it wasn't membership in the same CONTINUE READING: Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again | Common Dreams Views