To this, add austerity, the privatisation of public services and the annihilation of social housing and a cocktail of interconnected causes take shape. Communities break up, independent businesses gradually close down, diversity disappears and another neighbourhood is absorbed within the expensive homogenised collective. People living in developed industrialised countries suffer most acutely, but developed nations are subjected to the same violent methodology of division and injustice that led to the murder of probably hundreds of innocent people in Grenfell Tower.
The rabid spread of corporate globalisation has allowed the poison of commercialisation to be injected into the fabric of virtually every country in the world, including developing nations. As neoliberal policies are exchanged for debt relief and so-called ‘investment’, which is little more than exploitation, the problems of the North infiltrate the South. Economic cultural colonisation smiles and shakes hands, wears a suit and causes fewer deaths than the traditional method of control and pillaging, but it is just as pernicious and corrosive.
