The global elite dodged identification with the hoarding Father figure
Evidence
Live 8 was a strange kind of protest; a protest that everyone could agree with: who is it who actually wants poverty? And it is not that Live 8 was a ‘degraded’ form of protest. On the contrary, it was in Live 8 that the logic of the protest was revealed in its purest form. The protest impulse of the 60s posited a malevolent Father, the harbinger of a reality principle that (supposedly) cruelly and arbitrarily denies the ‘right’ to total enjoyment. This Father has unlimited access to resources, but he selfishly – and senselessly – hoards them. Yet it is not capitalism but protest itself which depends upon this figuration of the Father; and one of the successes of the current global elite has been their avoidance of identification with the figure of the hoarding Father, even though the ‘reality’ they impose on the young is substantially harsher than the conditions they protested against in the 60s. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 33
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ethical consumerism claims shopping itself can solve systemic global poverty — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 34; The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 33; High-authoritarian elites gorged on personal wealth while their people starved (+2 more)
Related
- The protest movement itself depends on a hoarding-Father figure it posits (similarity 0.88)
- Protest depends on positing a hoarding Father the global elite avoids embodying (similarity 0.88)
Broader Connections
- Hegel’s theological error reveals his drive to reduce the Father’s originary superabundance
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 712 - High-authoritarian elites gorged on personal wealth while their people starved
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