Capitalist Realism

This strategy – of accepting the incommensurable and the senseless without question – has always been the exemplary technique of sanity as such, but it has a special role to play in late capitalism, that ‘motley painting of everything that ever was’, whose dreaming up and junking of social fictions is nearly as rapid as its production and disposal

What we are dealing with now, however, is a deeper, far more pervasive, sense of exhaustion, of cultural and political sterility.