Pervasive ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful
Evidence
The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 165
Categorization
- FICTION: The image of a tiny event tearing a hole in a grey curtain of reaction is a vivid speculative/utopian frame that could seed dystopian or post-revolutionary storytelling.
- XREF: connects to: Total ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful.; Totalitarian ideology coerces through the fear of abandoning a first premise; Capitalist realism’s own totality makes small alternative experiments disproportionately powerful. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 165
Related
- Capitalist realism’s own totality makes small alternative experiments disproportionately powerful. (similarity 0.94)
- Total ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful. (similarity 0.87)
- Capitalist realism makes alternatives to capitalism unthinkable (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Total ideological closure makes small alternatives disproportionately powerful.
#corroborates(0.98) - Totalitarian ideology coerces through the fear of abandoning a first premise
#complicates(0.75)