Capitalism: A Theory of Managed Discontent
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It is a peculiar thing to observe that the loudest protests against the established order do not weaken it, but seem rather to strengthen its hold. One begins to suspect that the anger directed at the system is not a threat to it, but a part of its machinery. It serves a function, like steam in an engine, which must be released lest the whole apparatus burst. This is not conspiracy, but simple mechanics. A stable system must manage its own pressures.
The social order, as it stands, operates on a simple and brutal principle: it sorts people. Some it lifts up; most it holds down. The reasons for this sorting processes are complex and mostly hidden—a mixture of chance, birth, and the cold arithmetic of circumstance. To speak of "justice" or "fairness" in the face of this process is to use the language of theatre tropes. The real mechanism is indifferent. This is the Way.
In this reality, political movements play assigned parts. On one side, you have the party of the complacent. They do not merely accept the sorting process; they celebrate it! They boast their position, they mock those beneath them, and they defend the process as natural and right. Their manner is one of crude pride.
On the other side, you have the party of the feigned concerned. They speak in tones of sympathy and intellectual outrage. They make a show of examining the sign, of tutting at its wording, of proposing to adjust its fit. Occasionally, they may even slip a scrap of bread into the pocket of the wearer. But they do not remove the sign. Their entire purpose depends upon its continued existence. Their profession is the management of its discomfort.
These two sides perform a perpetual, familiar pantomime of conflict, but it is a conflict with boundaries, like a boxing match within a ring. The blows are real, but the structure that contains them is not in question. The anger of the bottom is channeled into hatred of the top, and the anxiety of the top is soothed by the rituals of the bottom’s managers. The energy of rebellion is thus siphoned off and put to use turning the wheels of the very system it claims to oppose.
Where does this leave the individual? If one cannot destroy the machine or escape the sorting process, a curious form of resignation emerges. People begin to play their assigned roles with a kind of bitter, creative resentment. In the corners of society—in certain private clubs, in the coded spaces of the internet, in artistic and sexual subcultures—you see it clearly. They do not pretend the hierarchy is gone. Instead, they take their place within it knowingly. They polish their chains until they gleam; they wear their subservience, their subjugation as a conscious (cosplay?) costume. It is a way of seizing a shred of authorship or control, in a story written by warring, indifferent forces.
The Great Lie of Our Time is the Promise of a Final Solution
The idea that with the right policy, the right revolution, the right awakening, the sorting will stop. It will not stop. Such are the vulgar conditions of modern social life. The only freedom left is the freedom to understand the game you are in, to see the actors in their costumes, and to choose, with clear eyes, how you will play your own part. You can rage against your position, you can preen in it, or you can perform it with a detached, unsentimental skill that holds the whole sorry spectacle at arm’s length.
The aim is not to win a game that is rigged from the start. The aim is to stop believing in the scoreboard, and to learn instead the cold, useful facts of your own position. Then, perhaps, you can move through the world without illusions, which is the only true form of strength left to us.
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