Prior everyday neoliberal culture buffered the crisis until the collective mobilized.

Evidence

Since economists were caught off-guard during the onset of the crisis, both journalists and the general public had initially to fall back on vernacular understandings of the disaster, as well as cultural conceptions of the economy then prevalent. Hence the prior decades of “everyday neoliberalism” that had taken root in the culture provided a bulwark until the active mobilization of the Neoliberal Thought Collective could mount further responses. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 976

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Mirowski’s broader ‘everyday neoliberalism’ concept and to the idea that cultural sedimentation, not just elite policy, sustains hegemonic ideology. — connects to: Culture chose self-enrichment over collective protest during the 2011 crisis. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 226; Everyday culture signals political ruptures before formal politics registers them. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1134

Broader Connections

• Culture chose self-enrichment over collective protest during the 2011 crisis. #contradicts (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 226
• Everyday culture signals political ruptures before formal politics registers them. #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1134