Die Ideologie des Neoliberalismus (freier Markt!) stellt sich mächtig vor Realität bzw Evidenz. Konkret: Die Klimakatastrophe einzudämmen erfordert staatliche Eingriffe in den Markt. Das geht sich für neoliberale Ideologen im Kopf nicht aus. Ergo Verleugnung.

As I explained in my earlier thread, we need to understand our current information and epistemic (how we create knowledge) environment has changed dramatically over the last decade, and we need to respond to those changes.

Populist, conspiratorial, & authoritarian stacks perform very well in the new information environment. They deliver speed, certainty, & identity coherence where traditional democratic institutions deliver delay, complexity, & opacity, assuming they're performing in a substantial way to being with.

In the old system, institutions had temporal buffers, which meant they could verify before public judgment cohered. In the new system, those buffers have collapsed. Meaning now stabilises for the public in hours, long before institutional processes can finish.

What broke this was not ideology, it was an inversion of the information environment. The old system was defined by information scarcity and attention abundance, and it was slow, top-down, and gatekept.