Jamie's Trip To Neoliberal Nightmare 'Ozyfest'

In this Majority Report clip, Sam Seder and Jamie explain just what 'Ozyfest' is.

"On August 11th, 1999, the Dalai Lama brought thousands of New Yorkers to Central Park to hear him preach the gospel of nothingness. About 20 years later, a tech start-up called OZY Media updated His Holiness’ concept as a bipartisan bacchanal of surrender complete with false prophets, matching accessories and the pacifying sense that everything will be fine – if only we embrace our fate as steerage passengers on the SpaceX™ Titanic.

Fueled by Silicon Valley venture capital, the third annual OZY Fest brought together the brightest minds of neoliberalism for an extended sermon on the importance of staying the course. It was sponsored by Volvo, and combined TED talk-like panels during the day with bland indie music into the night. CNBC called it “New York’s answer to SXSW.” Featured names included Chelsea Handler, Malcolm Gladwell, Common and Grouplove. The undisputed headliner: Hillary Clinton. As a critical chronicler of Hillary in particular and late capitalist decline in general, I had to see it for myself."

[lessonslearned]

Ozymandias: Empires die. Neo-Liberals: Let's double down on Empire...WOHOOO!!!!

[brentadler]

I thought hilldog promised us that she would stay in the woods, Another broken campaign promise.

[davidowens]

Wow, Jamie! good shit getting a Rollingstone piece destroying the NeoLibs!!!

[jonnydarkfang]

I literally read that as "Ozfest", thought Hillary Clinton was on stage at a Rock show...

[brentshowers]

Centrists don’t have answers for the future of America’s economy or social life

[tomitstube]

parent. "so, tell us about your schools".
charter school. "well, we're the fastest growing charter school industry in the tri-state market, and we've recently gone public, and our shares have almost doubled."

[sirius]

The terms "educational entrepreneur" and "curriculum product" have such incredible demonic energy

[Kntrabssi]

Where has Jamie Peck been my whole life?

[kevin]

I assume this Jamie is the same Jamie that attended with Matt and Will?

[dinospumoni]

Clicked this thinking she went to an Ozzy Osborne concert.

[mikethepunk]

okay i cant be the only one who read that as Ozzfest right?

[mattm]

I heard Neera Tanden opened for Hillary

[Nicbn]

I thought she showed up at Ozzfest, Prophets of Rage would shit all over Hillary.

[CarsonZXY]

Wait... Ozymandias? Isn't that the poem that said "time makes us all nobodies so don't bother with fame"? How'd you get "the humble never die" out of that? That is somehow worse than naming the war department "ministry of love"

[murphythompson]

I really don't feel like dying anytime soon, and being a "Boomer" it is what we are doing these days. But that feeling of missing something by not being here is getting easier. On account of my generation got to see peace and prosperity I have a grandchild that was born into our country at war and failure. To this generation I am sorry for mine, abandoning our principles, ending up only being greedy, selfish and typical.

[easy]

Wow you guys finally let her speak for longer than five seconds? Nice.

[reszssx]

What I don’t like about TMR sometimes is that they talk about everything as if it was black and white. I didn’t like OZY fest or whatever but they had some good conversations especially the panels Ana was on and you guys need to be more fair

[darkashtar]

I'm starting to realize I actually had some pretty good teachers in school. Maybe not the best, and definitely a few bad ones, but a lot of them were very good.

[atrociousconsequences]

Activist Rose McGowan is listed as attending, she seems to somewhat hate Neoliberals.

[R.ion]

Entrepreneur. The term has taken on the same ambiance as behavioral therapist, or performance artist.