The technostructure faced a spiritual backlash before its economic collapse

Evidence

Going against the grain, Don Draper explains his theory of love to a date: ‘What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.’ The fictional character (who, I insist, personifies the technostructure’s spirit) enlisted exaggerated cynicism to make a point: having created desires and expectations that ultimately its consumer products could not actually satisfy, and well before its economic foundation was trampled upon by the rampaging Minotaur, the technostructure was facing a backlash indicative of a society-wide spiritual crisis. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 205

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Woo-woo spirituality thrived as a capitalist-compatible response to technocracy’s failures — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 602; Post-recession culture collapsed further into commerce rather than reimagining society; Woo-woo rose as a counterbalance to failed technocracy yet still aligned with capitalism — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 602 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Woo-woo rose as a counterbalance to failed technocracy yet still aligned with capitalism #expands (0.88) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 602
• Woo-woo spirituality thrived as a capitalist-compatible response to technocracy’s failures #expands (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 602
• Spiritual and countercultural protest gets absorbed harmlessly by the system #expands (0.82)
• Post-recession culture collapsed further into commerce rather than reimagining society #complicates (0.75)
• The Nineties’ future-euphoria gave way to cultural deceleration and depleted resources #qualifies (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1240