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A Point of View: Thinking the Unthinkable

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Thinking the Unthinkable

28/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Thinking the Unthinkable

John Gray argues that 'thinking the unthinkable' means exaggerating fashionable beliefs.

John Gray argues that 'thinking the unthinkable' means exaggerating to the point of absurdity beliefs that are currently fashionable.

John Gray argues that "thinking the unthinkable" as a way of making policy does nothing more than extend conventional wisdom to the point of absurdity and fails to take account of the complexities of reality. "Capitalism has lurched into a crisis from which it still has not recovered. Yet the worn-out ideology of free markets sets the framework within which our current generation of leaders continues to think and act."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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