Live Aid’s fake consensus marked the cultural end of the miners’ era

Evidence

Part of the reason that 1985 seemed like the worst year for pop ever was that it was the beginning of the restoration. Up to 1984, British popular and political culture was still a battleground. 1985 was the year of Live Aid, the beginning of a time of the fake consensus that is the cultural expression of global capital. If Live Aid was the non-event that happened, the strike was the Event that didn’t. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 226

Categorization

• XREF: Filters into how we read Ballard’s pop-coded history; ties Live Aid to the fake consensus as a recurring Fisher diagnostic of post-1985 culture. — connects to: Live Aid framed famine as solvable by individuals without systemic politics — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 34