This chapter picks up the philosophical rift introduced previously, tracing its evolution into a full rupture between modern and postmodern thought. The ideas of Isaiah Berlin, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Leo Strauss and Michel Foucault himself are important here, as they develop alongside new forms of neoliberal governance. As neoliberalism consolidates its hold, the chapter examines how the ideology of ‘free choice’ functions to absorb, neutralise and preclude alternative ways of thinking and living. This process gives rise to a pervasive neoliberal ‘consensus’—an art of governance premised on a conscious production and manipulation of certain instrumental, capital-conducive, ‘truths’. As this consensus is secured and imposed on various peoples and places, the chapter explores some of the economic, cultural and military forces that made it so irresistible—with a special focus on the Iraq War.