Towards the death of Neo-Liberalism

Abstract
Gianni Vattimo makes the somewhat rueful observation that ‘nothing happens' in our time. Let's suppose his observation to be correct. Since news invariably tends to be bad news, I expect many people will not be too unhappy about this. Is there not a great deal of truth in Hegel's claim that happy times ordinarily give us the blank pages in the book of history? And these people might go on by pointing out that quite a lot happened in the years between 1914 and 1945, but that in 1945 every sensible person will have welcomed the arrival of less troubled times. So, if ‘nothing happens' we'd probably better rejoice in this than be worried about it.