María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed "massive privatization", offering to sell off $1.7 trillion of her nation's resources to US corporations
The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.
Most things are named after pieces of shit. Being a piece of shit is the number one way to get something named after you. That’s not to say the Nobels aren’t a sham, but conceptually there are more offensive things than a prize that’s supposed to go to someone who contributes to humanity. Impressive that the system so effectively coopted them to do more shitty things. Important lesson there.
The peace prize yes. They’ve made really questionable choices from Kissinger to Obama (Who really did win because Not Bush). No one should take it seriously.
Also, wasn’t the Nobel Prize kind of just a western PR stunt?
The science ones are generally legitimate. The literature and peace prizes have been wholly co-opted by western interests. The economics prize isn’t even a real Nobel, it’s just a prize sponsored by the Swedish central bank and administered by the Nobel Institute, and it’s a pure PR tool for legitimizing neoliberalism.
Right and even the guy it’s named after tho. Kind of a piece of shit.
Most things are named after pieces of shit. Being a piece of shit is the number one way to get something named after you. That’s not to say the Nobels aren’t a sham, but conceptually there are more offensive things than a prize that’s supposed to go to someone who contributes to humanity. Impressive that the system so effectively coopted them to do more shitty things. Important lesson there.
The peace prize yes. They’ve made really questionable choices from Kissinger to Obama (Who really did win because Not Bush). No one should take it seriously.