April 17th - MT & the free-market she loved

One thing the past week has done for me is its made clear just how much MT’s personality was very very similar to the unregulated free-market capitalism which she so energetically promoted.   For a long time I've been thinking about how free-market capitalism has developed and spread and I’ve come to see that much of what is wrong in the world is due to the fact that it has been given free-rein to meet its own needs and that those needs don't always take account of the needs of we humans (or indeed of the needs of the planet and other creatures we share it with)
But back to MT and what I see as her personal likeness to (as well as her liking of) free markets.
For starters she was very brainy.  And, yes, isn't free market capitalism clever how it harnesses our enterprise, energy and creativity to produce the most amazing material stuff to make life comfortable. It even manages to persuade us that what it is selling will make us happy.
Many said she had a head but no heart which just seems to sum up the world we have created
She was always very divisive - and, my, how free market capitalism divides the rich from the poor
She was focussed on what she wanted to get done and sidelined anyone who got in her way, much as an unregulated market in its search for growth takes no prisoners as it concretes over  - some say rapes – our precious natural environment and destroys diverse human culture in the name of 'progress'.
At the end of her political career - according to many close to her - she went 'mad'.  Don't we seem to be living in a mad, mad, world now that free-market capitalism is reigning supreme?
Perhaps the good news is that even MT didn't go on forever, so perhaps our world has hope ...