When I get picky and need something unusual to read, I often go to Cory Doctorow’s blog, plurasitic.net.
As an example, tonight I was reading about his March 3rd 2025 entry “Trumpism is our oil crisis” in which he vilifies Milton Friedman (rightly so) and delivers a new twist to my understanding of Friedman’s history. The entry actually has a few pointers on how we’re at a pivotal place now and how the EU (for example) may be able to break free of the rent-seeking corporate dictatorships governing America at this time.
Refreshing reading but also telling of the trouble we’re in and how Normal Jewison’s 1975 movie “Rollerball” foretold this future.
Redistributing the means of production around the world is a necessary and urgent project, but it won’t be advanced through Trump’s rapid, unscheduled mid-air disassembly of the global system of trade. Tariffs will cause breakdowns in neoliberalism’s fragile supply chains, and the ensuing chaos – mass unemployment, shortages, political rage – will make it even harder for countries (including the USA) to rebuild the productive capacity vaporized by 40 years of neoliberalism.
Norman Jewison’s ‘Rollerball’ depicted a world in which corporations controlled all information – is this dystopian vision becoming reality?
https://theconversation.com/norman-jewisons-rollerball-depicted-a-world-in-which-corporations-controlled-all-information-is-this-dystopian-vision-becoming-reality-222099