Capitalist pudding

[J Tracy]

Echoing the “conspicuous consumption” theories of Veblen, French philosopher and sociologist Jean-François Lyotard posited that consumerist workers in modern capitalist societies did not want emancipation. Their materialistic desires meant they enjoyed “swallowing the shit of capital,” Lyotard wrote.

2 responses: 1)modern philosopher restates plato’s cave allegory 2) one of the more disturbing scenes in  Gravity’s Rainbow