How do you overcome Shock Doctrine the forcing of Free Market Ideology and Doctrine on unwilling populance that is embedding itself deeper and deeper upon the manufacture of consent (media) and consent ( election time). This is an abiding question.

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There are several established counters to Shock, none of which are very impressive. First you can consider the isolationist policies of countries in South America to be a reaction to Shock (as implemented over the past 60 years) - the utilization of adversarial diplomatic relations with the United States a buffer. By nationalizing resources, you prevent their acquisition by foreign corporations. You could argue that Cuba started the policy in the Hemisphere, but that it was largely a result of The Cold War. Regardless, Shock _could_ still be implemented in these systems, if there was enough will to do so.