Inherent dissatisfaction is endlessly sellable to capitalism
Evidence
Cosmetic surgery is not good — it’s not good! People are concerned about their appearance, but they are measuring by the standards of this depressing normativity. Neuroses is highly productive, and very useful for capitalism. What’s better than inherent dissatisfaction? Inherent dissatisfaction can be sold to endlessly. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2250
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes Fisher’s recurring point (book ch104) that late capitalism runs on managed anxiety and compulsory cynicism. — connects to: Financial capitalism destroys real value and exploits the psyche; The centerlessness of capitalism is unconsciously unbearable and disavowed — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 130; Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Profitable capitalism must forever discover new uncommodified emotions to exploit
#expands(0.95) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 129 - Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth
#corroborates(0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420 - The discourse of creativity masks real needs that capitalism cannot actually satisfy
#corroborates(0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 572 - Damaged happiness mirrors the false whole under capitalism.
#corroborates(0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 947