Blindboy

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1,520 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Blindboy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And this is what's been happening to...

The West, we'll call it.

It started in the 80s.

It started in the late 70s in Chile.

Thatcher and Reagan.

But it accelerated after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when capitalism no longer had a major competitor.

The communism of the Soviet Union fell, and then capitalism consumed everything, including public services.

But the hopelessness and futility

that's created by neoliberal policies is also what creates fertile grounds for the far right.

Why?

Because when the social net is eroded and something like housing for people who need housing, when that is given to the private market,

Let's just say you've got to rent a house in Ireland tomorrow, which is a very difficult thing to do because there's fucking nothing on the market.

You've got to rent a house in Ireland tomorrow.

You're competing against someone who's homeless and might be receiving HAP from the government.

So instead of housing being provided for people who need it, everybody private and public is now competing for the same housing.

And that pushes people to see something like housing as individual competition rather than a shared system.

Selfishness, scarcity, individualism.

Politics doesn't appear to change anything because so much has been shifted to the private forces.

And then collective action feels pointless.

And we can see that there's a problem, but most people can't identify the source of the problem because it's so complex.

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