"People who fail in the neoliberal society see themselves responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system. Under the regime, people are turning their aggression against themselves, the exploited aren't inclined to revolution so much as depression.
Neoliberal psychopolitics, with the consciousness industry it promotes, is destroying the human which is anything but a machine of positivity. The neoliberal subject is running aground on the imperative of self-optimization, on the compulsion always to achieve more and more. The neoliberal imperative of self-optimization serves only to promote perfect functioning within the system. Inhibitions, weakness and mistakes are to be therapeutically eliminated in order to enhance efficiency and performance.
Endlessly working at self-improvement resembles the self-examination and self-monitoring of Protestantism, which represents a technology of subjectivation and domination in its own right. Now, instead of searching out for sins, one hunts down negative thoughts." -from Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
