Ep. 264: How Neoliberalism Uses "Mindfulness" to Create Compliant and Weak People/The Politics of Limbic Capitalism, Pleasure, and Addiction

Summary: Ronald E Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His new book is McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser is also the author of the widely-read essay at the Huffington Post, “Beyond McMindfulness”. Purser explains how neoliberalism and its gangster capitalists use “mindfulness” as a way of creating a compliant, lonely and weak public that is not equipped for the collective action necessary to make a better and more humane soci