Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.
Sounds like a worthwhile though depressing read. What is saddest is that the people who most need to read it no longer have the attention span to read a book. Somebody needs to turn it into a 3 minute video short on YouTube.
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