Neo-Liberalism's Common Sense

This is the first in a multiblog criticism of an ideology known as Neo-liberalism, to properly do a basic critique you should know abit of the ideology's background.

Neo-liberalism is closely linked to Thatcherism (for the Americans- Reaganism) and it is the governing way of thinking for the world. Since the end of World War 2 Liberalism (in general) has lost allot of its main opposition- Fascism, Communism and Socialism in addition to Imperialism. These ideologies have been destroyed in the eyes of the public, and although they haven't died off they have very much reduced in influence- Fascism due to the toppling of the German, Italian and Spanish regimes, Communism and Socialism due to America's genocide towards any Communist organisation around the global throughout the Cold War, and not to mention any "Communist" nation's gross bastardisation of the ideology, and then Imperialism because many ex-empire nations provided freedom to their former occupants and then attacked others for occupying nations/regions that don't belong to the aggressor.

With the simple history attended to, its time for the actual ideology. Neo-liberalism promotes (previously covered) Liberal freedoms and common sense, sounds great in theory- common sense is always desired. My fault with this (without going into previously discussed points) is that common sense is not always the best thing, sometimes logic is needed and in fact required, to some extend, for a person to think for themselves. A society run purely on common sense does not question beyond its daily life, why should it? Society is content and happily running along, why should it question what it feels doesn't concern it? A society and its people should always question, because in doing so it finds answers to questions and problems that will doubtless haunt it in the future. Those of previous generations didn't question pollution because it didn't affect them, or at least they didn't think it did, yet a society using logic would've questioned pollution and so sought to fix the issue earlier. A lack of questioning seems dominant throughout a society run by common sense, and without questioning those who run society; the financiers, large business leaders, government officials and anyone else in similar powerful positions can do what they wish unimpeded. Many in business follow through with ruthless competition, competition to which is designed to net them more money whilst taking as much as they can from those that work for them, and killing off other businesses in the process, making people unemployed and pennyless.
This ultimately pointless competition is common sense because in the short run it excels and drives business and technological advancement, in the long run however the cost of expanding so greatly adds up, but is forever forgotten about until the long run becomes a sudden stop- this is the nature of government spending and its debts, one overarching reason for the continuous financial problems of the world, our environment and its pollution, a major factor in homelessness, personal debt and so many more crises that threaten us. But most of this can be attributed towards capitalism and as Neo-liberalism  is the ideology of capitalism, then capitalism is seem as common sense and so nothing of this is questioned by the public until it is too late. Capitalism and neo-liberalism by the aforementioned reasons follow a course of competition in contrast to co-operation and it is this competition where another neo-liberal trait rears its head- survival of the fittest.

 The ideal of the strongest surviving is known as Darwinism, it is an ideal Neo-liberals believe in, not just for businesses but also society- Social Darwinism as its called and that shall be the focus of the next blog.