"Neoliberal ideology has been successful not so much because charismatic
individuals function as oracles, but because secular modern
cultures of rational deliberation have difficulty acknowledging, (when they are not busy denying) that disenchanted, anti-oracular rationalistic societies must continue to do what, as Evan Heimlich puts it, cultures more sanguine about divination acknowledge the need to do: to 'read chance aloud'. It is the cultural disavowal of the role of divination that allows for the authoritarianism of certain forms of supposed expertise on risk - certain forms of nonknowledge and not others - to govern the genuinely unknown."
Joshua Ramey The Politics of Divination (2016) p.6
