Most people in capitalist countries never leave the economic bracket they were born into. Capitalism is a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

    • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think what I’m saying is an ideology, let alone the ideology of capitalists.

      Is biology the ideology of capitalists? Is mathematics the ideology of capitalists? Is philosophy the ideology of capitalists?

      • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

      • Balefirex [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As Alenka Zupancic explains, psychoanalysis’s positing of a reality principle invites us to be suspicious of any reality that presents itself as natural. ‘The reality principle’, Zupancic writes, is not some kind of natural way associated with how things are … The reality principle itself is ideologically mediated; one could even claim that it constitutes the highest form of ideology, the ideology that presents itself as empirical fact (or biological, economic…) necessity (and that we tend to perceive as non-ideological). It is precisely here that we should be most alert to the functioning of ideology.

        • Capitalist Realism, chapter 3