The fusion of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism (the pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable political and economic system) with Hyperslavery, Late-Stage Capitalism, Objective Hyperrealism, Precarized Consumerism, and Hyperconsumerism into a seamless, inescapable atmosphere of late capitalist life. It's not just the belief that there's no alternative to capitalism—it's the lived experience of a world where capitalism has become so total that it constitutes the entire horizon of the real. Under capitalist hyperrealism, precarity is normal, exploitation is freedom, garbage products are luxury goods, and the whole system is buttressed by an Objective Hyperrealist ideology that treats these conditions as natural facts rather than political choices. The result is a reality so completely colonized by capital that imagining beyond it requires not just political opposition but an almost impossible act of perceptual rebellion.
Example: "He couldn't see his gig economy job as exploitation because Capitalist Hyperrealism had so thoroughly saturated his consciousness—this was just 'how things are,' as natural and unchangeable as gravity."
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Get the Capitalist Hyperrealism mug.The established, institutionalized set of beliefs about capitalism that dominate mainstream economics, policy, and public discourse—the often-unexamined assumptions that markets are efficient, that growth is good, that privatization improves services, that competition drives innovation, and that capitalism is the only viable economic system. Capitalist orthodoxy includes specific commitments: that free markets allocate resources optimally, that regulation distorts efficiency, that inequality is the natural result of differential contribution, that economic growth is the primary measure of success, and that alternatives to capitalism are either impossible or disastrous. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for thinking about economics, but it can also function as ideology—making capitalist arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring exploitation and harm, and delegitimizing alternatives. Capitalist orthodoxy determines what questions economists ask, what policies are considered reasonable, and who counts as a "serious" economic thinker versus a naive idealist.
Example: "She suggested that maybe growth isn't always good—and was dismissed as economically illiterate by her colleagues. Capitalist orthodoxy doesn't allow questioning of its most fundamental assumptions; they're treated as self-evident rather than contestable."
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Get the CAPITALIAN mug.vulture capitalist: a takeover artist who loads a venture up with debt while extracting capital for profit, making the firm go bankrupt.
argh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.
vultARGH capitalists!: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about vulture capitalists.
argh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.
vultARGH capitalists!: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about vulture capitalists.
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Get the vultARGH capitalists! mug.N.B: this expression is supposed to be used mainly by WASPs when talking to other WASPs, but this is not mandatory; non-WASPs can, but again this is not mandatory, use other perfectly correct English translations of the same Latin phrase, such a 'grab life by the horns', among others.
(as a pun variation on the Ford F-150 commercial line' grab life by the horns'), this is one of the many possible English translations of the Latin phrase carpe diem.
(as a pun variation on the Ford F-150 commercial line' grab life by the horns'), this is one of the many possible English translations of the Latin phrase carpe diem.
as to who may have first used the expression grab capitalism by the balls to translate the Latin phrase carpe diem, IMHO as a history major, I would probably have to say it would have been the 'founders' of modern Western WASP capitalism, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, but i doubt it they would have used the exact same words.
by Sexydimma June 12, 2013
Get the grab capitalism by the balls mug.(as a pun variation on the Ford F-150 commercial punch line 'grab life by the horns'), this is one of the many possible English translations of the Latin phrase carpe diem.
as to who may have first used the expression grab capitalism by the balls to translate the Latin phrase carpe diem, IMHO as a history major, I would probably have to say it would have been the 'founders' of modern Western WASP capitalism, people like Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.
by Sexydimma November 12, 2013
Get the grab capitalism by the balls mug.(as a pun/ variation on the Ford F-150 commercial punch line 'grab life by the horns'): one of the many possible English translations of the Latin phrase carpe diem.
as to who may have first used the expression grab capitalism by the balls to translate the Latin phrase carpe diem, I would probably have to say it would have been the 'founders' of modern WASP capitalism, people like John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.
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