"Here lies the neoliberal card trick. It is by
foreclosing all other interpretations of the present other than having been produced by a past in which 'markets were not yet fully operational' that neoliberal divination manages to convince us to keep attempting to remake the future in the image of a past that never was - a past where there
might have been and
should have been perfectly operative market forces. There is only one oracle, one message, and one chance: for the further and more perfect extension of market forces into more of human reality, rendering it finally subject to the only conceivably meaningful chance we will have had - to render ourselves profitable, or perish in the process."
Joshua Ramey The Politics of Divination (2016) p.64
