The great moving nowhere show reading really gets at some of
the ideas that I am trying to articulate within my thesis, such as how
neoliberalism is similar to conservatism. Within the reading itself, the call
compares new labor to ideologies found under Thatcherism. It definitely
articulates and gets at Hall's point that while we are seeing change happen,
there are other behaviors that are still present that make that change
irrelevant (a changing same). A lot of the things mentioned in this piece map onto
US neoliberal ideology, which also became the primary ideology (one would say
hegemonic), which altered public discourse and political agendas (free markets,
limited government, individuality, and freedom. Those became central to
political debates and policy making). It shouldn't be entirely surprising to me
that the same things were being witnessed across the pond, but I think by Hall
explicitly laying it out, we're able to highlight the interconnectedness of
global economic trends and political ideologies.
Hall claims that we constantly fight for a certain ideology
to be seen as the primary or naturalized one. There is definitely something to
be said about how political movements and grassroots activism play an extremely
important role in transforming and making people question our current
naturalized ideology; what else could be done to make these marginalized
ideologies become the mainstream naturalized ideology as this seems to be a big
missing puzzle in achieving racial equity especially if we see the same
ideologies in different countries.
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