Adult consumer reality is itself a fantasy that suppresses the uncanny

Evidence

In fact, all they have done is substituted one fantasy for another. The point is that to be an adult in consumer capitalism IS to occupy the Perky Pat world of drably bright soap opera domesticity. What is eliminated in the mediocre melodrama we are invited to call adult reality is not fantasy, but the uncanny — the sense that all is not as it seems, that the kitchen-sink everyday is a front for the machinations of parasites and alien forces which either possess, control or have designs upon us. In other words, the suppressed wisdom of uncanny fiction is that it is THIS world, the world of liberal-capitalist commonsense, that is a stage set with wobbly walls. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 375

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion — that quotidian adulthood is the real stage set with wobbly walls while uncanny fiction tells the truth — is a paradigm-shifting reversal of how we read both paranoia and realism.
• XREF: connects to: Consumerist reality is knowingly self-simulated with no orchestrator behind it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 457; Cynical disbelief masks an unconscious ideological fantasy structuring reality — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 30; Fantasy’s rise tracks capitalism’s defeat of alternative reality structures — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 376 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Cynical disbelief masks an unconscious ideological fantasy structuring reality #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 30
• Media’s pseudo-realism infuses everyday life with meanings that block direct experience #corroborates (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 234
• Consumerist reality is knowingly self-simulated with no orchestrator behind it #qualifies (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 457
• Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real #qualifies (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40
• Consumers knowingly accept transparent cultural deception out of necessity #qualifies (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 145
• Consumers buy culture-industry products knowing they are being manipulated #corroborates (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 31
• Fantasy’s rise tracks capitalism’s defeat of alternative reality structures #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 376
• Eliminating the image-reality distinction can produce collective lunacy. #corroborates (0.75)