> The public sphere becomes anemic and restricted to "pragmatic" things like economics, which vulgarizes the culture In correct. This is more recent Neoliberal

> The public sphere becomes anemic and restricted to "pragmatic" things like economics, which vulgarizes the culture In correct. This is more recent Neoliberalism, which is an attempt to remove public democratic participation from as many walks of life as possible and to claim that’s ‘freedom’. They play tricks on you, Freedom from democracy is freedom from government intervention, leave it to the capital class / aristocracy to make all these decisions.