#apocalyptic delusions

“the ruthless pursuit of profit is counteracted by charity: charity is part of the game, a humanitarian mask hiding the underlying economic exploitation. Developed countries are constantly “helping” underdeveloped ones and so avoiding the key issue: their complicity in and responsibility for the miserable situation of the Third World.”

“But to reclaim agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat grinder of capital. Capital is not something imposed upon us by our despots, it is we who are hooked on the garbage in honey’s sack, unable to kick the habit of returning to the Big Jesus Trashcan for another hit of feel-good junk”

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. ”

“The assumption of bourgeois so-called feminists is that their lives of neurotic bed-hopping “freedom” and Carrie Bradshawing perpetual adolescent equivocation are better than the working-class patter of once getting married young and now having children young, when it is clear that it is just another trap — and not necessarily a more congenial one”

“Capital — now using nihiliberal rather than neoliberal modes of governance — doesn’t have any solution except to load the young with debt and precarity”

“There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart”