I learned quite a lot from the financial models of modern capitalism. I always found these models to be severely lacking in common sense (not that it’s a good reason to ditch them), and to be used in a malicious way, imposing laws and lowering protections for no good reason. A model is only as good as the assumptions that it makes. Any decision made based on the model results without considering them is ridiculous.

And I knew that politicians imposed some of these laws after a shock. We can see that after the terrorist attacks in Europe in the last decade, but I didn’t realise that their security laws were actually entirely part of the neoliberalism doctrine. Enters this book.

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Climate change is a problem that we have to solve for our children’s sake. The problem is how. When Bill Gates is talking about addressing the issue, it’s interesting because he is part of the problem and he is known to prefer doing things on his own without care about the political aspects. Is it a good thing for climate change or not?

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It’s a question that is all the rage at the moment. It seems that there is a huge pick-up in questions of racism in all aspects of our life. Maths has been impacted (some people even saying that requiring the right answer is racism, but this is over the top!) and so does now music.

I also had some epiphany myself while reading books on white supremacy last year, but no work on the subject can be considered done after one step. It’s a tough journey. So why music theory and white supremacy put together felt so wrong to me?

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