Compensatory fantasy of Family Nation and Heroism drives capitulation to capitalism

Evidence

The fantasy structure of Family, Nation and Heroism thus functions, not in any sense as a representation, false or otherwise, but as a model to live up to. The inevitable failure of our own lives to match up to the digital Ideal is one of the motors of capitalism’s worker-consumer passivity, the docile pursuit of what will always be elusive, a world free of fissures and discontinuities. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 377

Categorization

• XREF: Extends ch22’s class dynamics and the earlier point that bourgeois banality strips fantasy rather than the uncanny. — connects to: Hero-worship functions as a placeholder vehicle for propagating economic ideas to mass publics — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 450; Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 83; Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 271 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hero-worship functions as a placeholder vehicle for propagating economic ideas to mass publics #corroborates (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 450
• Nationalism answers an existential belonging deficit that capitalism creates #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2047
• Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone #corroborates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 83
• Finance capitalism now shapes collective imagination the way print capitalism built nations #corroborates (0.74) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 271
• Fantasy ideology smuggles feudal nostalgia into imagined other worlds #expands (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1104
• Advanced capitalism generates an illusory conviction of individual self-centering among its elite classes #corroborates (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 808