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Luxon and his self-help books - Olive - 16-02-2025
Hanif Kureishi (not writing about Luxon but spot on nonetheless):
"We've replaced the search for knowledge with the pursuit of metric-driven self-optimisation. The power of the narcissist is always based on exclusion, oppression and humiliation, sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
RE: Luxon and his self-help books - Oh_hunnihunni - 16-02-2025
Exactly what comes to mind when I see that popular exhortation about 'building personal wealth'...
RE: Luxon and his self-help books - zqwerty - 16-02-2025
Hanif Kureishi, born in Bromley, London, together with David Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux and others, they were all of what is known as the Bromley Contingent, I was born there as well but I got taken to Africa by my parents and missed out on exciting times in post war London unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley_Contingent
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=SusieSouix
RE: Luxon and his self-help books - Lilith7 - 16-02-2025
(16-02-2025, 01:21 PM)Olive Wrote: Hanif Kureishi (not writing about Luxon but spot on nonetheless):
"We've replaced the search for knowledge with the pursuit of metric-driven self-optimisation. The power of the narcissist is always based on exclusion, oppression and humiliation, sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
" sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."
The perfect description of Neoliberalism.
RE: Luxon and his self-help books - Olive - 16-02-2025
(16-02-2025, 03:06 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Hanif Kureishi, born in Bromley, London, together with David Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux and others, they were all of what is known as the Bromley Contingent, I was born there as well but I got taken to Africa by my parents and missed out on exciting times in post war London unfortunately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley_Contingent
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=SusieSouix
Following his terrible accident Hanif set up a blog at Substack, which is well worth subscribing to and helps support him.
https://hanifkureishi.substack.com