Stoner stupefaction only removes tension and serves consumer capitalism

Evidence

What could be better proof of Lacan’s claim that the nirvana principle — the drive towards the total extirpation of all tension — is not the death drive proper but merely the highest expression of the pleasure principle? Stoner stupefaction seeks only to remove tension, to become a zombified consumer, shambling to the fridge or the late-night garage to satisfy the constant craving of the insatiable Tungsten Carbide stomach of Kapital opened up in your organism by the dope. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2375

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on Fisher’s recurring k-punk themes: libidinal economy, Lacan, anti-consumerist kulturkritik across other chapters. — connects to: Addiction, not its absence, is the normal human state under capitalism — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 149; G-funk’s stoned bliss was an escape from capitalism’s demand to never stop self-selling — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1333
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that recreational stupor is not an escape from capitalism but the pleasure principle’s highest functioning as consumer zombification is a dense, paradigm-shifting fold in Fisher’s larger argument.

Broader Connections

• G-funk’s stoned bliss was an escape from capitalism’s demand to never stop self-selling #complicates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1333
• Addiction, not its absence, is the normal human state under capitalism #qualifies (0.74) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 149