The Canadian, "Radio without Radio," Rabble Radio conducts an interview with Naomi Klein. PODCAST of her interview here.  

In her interview, one of the central points Naomi Klein makes is that "shock" softens a country -- just as it does a person --  reduces its sense of self so that it accepts and acquiesces to treatment that it would not agree to otherwise.   Shock - A body blow to a country -- such as terrorism, Category 5 Hurricanes coupled with weakened infrastructure, invasions -- prepares a country to throw over its own values to embrace an extreme form of capitalism where the only intrinsic value is profit -- thus, her title, Disaster Capitalism.

And where there is not a "natural" disaster providing the shock, demagogues create them.

In the interview, Klein discusses three phases of the "shock doctrine": Body Blow; Economic; Torture.  For a short video, that includes narration from the CIA Manual of breaking people down by torture, see Shock-Doctrine Short Film.

Most will be focusing on the titilating aspect of the "shock," but equally important in this book is the recognition of what happens to society when everything -- religion, culture, health-- is turned into a commodity (monetized) to be bought and sold in markets for a profit.  

NeoLiberalism.  Extreme Capitalism.   Hyper Capitalism.    Disaster Capitalism.

What happens when spirituality, human life, community, family are no longer perceived to have value?

links of interest below the fold.