Sublime

The ultimate goal of present-day education is ‘self-management’ and ‘entrepreneurship’. Young people must regard themselves as enterprises, and see knowledge and skills above all in economic terms — that is, as something they can use to increase their market value.

we live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared.

The neo-liberal organisation of our society is determining how we relate to our bodies, our partners, our colleagues, and our children — in short, to our identities. And you can’t get much more disordered than that.