“widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it”
Fisher proposes that within a capitalist framework there is no space to conceive of alternative forms of social structures, adding that younger generations are not even concerned with recognizing alternatives. He proposes that the 2008 financial crisis compounded this position. Rather than catalyzing a desire to seek alternatives for the existing model, the crisis reinforced the notion that modifications must be made within the existing system. The crash confirmed within the populace the necessity of capitalism rather than shake it loose from its foundations.
Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action.
Fisher argues that “capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business”
I’m well aware of these concepts, and how 2023 is all based on the teachings of Edward Bernays. It’s a worldwide system, every nation uses Edward Bernays style advertising these days.
My point is that you can show them your document until you are blue in the face, I can’t even get them to notice how blind they are to a dollar bill right in front of them every day. I can’t even get them to notice that verse Matthew 6:5 in The Bible says that Donald Trump should not be standing in the street for a camera. It’s a 2000 year old book, can’t they read it right by now?
They throw around words, they will talk to you, they will argue with you - but they do not comprehend how thinking freely works. They will turn on Fox News HDTV and Elon Musk Twitter and suck down memes into their brain with no self-awareness how it changes their behavior.
Or QAnon memes from some nameless “Q” they don’t even know, they flock as hard as they can, making Q flags. You name HDTV networks, I see most people staring into smartphones and flocking from signal to signal.
You really should read a summary of Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_realism#Mark_Fisher
Because that is what you are referring to above.
I’m well aware of these concepts, and how 2023 is all based on the teachings of Edward Bernays. It’s a worldwide system, every nation uses Edward Bernays style advertising these days.
My point is that you can show them your document until you are blue in the face, I can’t even get them to notice how blind they are to a dollar bill right in front of them every day. I can’t even get them to notice that verse Matthew 6:5 in The Bible says that Donald Trump should not be standing in the street for a camera. It’s a 2000 year old book, can’t they read it right by now?
They throw around words, they will talk to you, they will argue with you - but they do not comprehend how thinking freely works. They will turn on Fox News HDTV and Elon Musk Twitter and suck down memes into their brain with no self-awareness how it changes their behavior.
Or CNN or MSNBC or NPR or …
Or QAnon memes from some nameless “Q” they don’t even know, they flock as hard as they can, making Q flags. You name HDTV networks, I see most people staring into smartphones and flocking from signal to signal.