![]() But behind closed doors they have the opportunity to create and imagine and be their own person. Once they leave their apartment they no longer have their own individual identities, personality, or life, everything about them is identical. This is the uncertainties that come with how to end capitalism and if that is even a possibility or will it fade out on its own.Īfter reading Capitalist Realism is There No Alternative? There have been many overlapping themes, along with that the idea of individuality has come up after watching the movie. It’s sometimes suggested that this uncertainty is not accidental, that abstraction and opacity are central characteristics of the system, which if true would make the common injunction to “smash capitalism” less than self-evident: Is capitalism even the sort of thing that could be smashed, like a vase or a VCR? If it isn’t, should we expect its demise to come by self-destruction, stagnation, or mutation?” (Luban). “Yet the end of capitalism is doubly ambiguous, for uncertainty about how capitalism might end reflects a deeper uncertainty about what exactly capitalism is. But how can we end capitalism when there is so much uncertainty of what it really is stated from the article How Will Capitalism End. ![]() The only way to see a change in a flawed system is to take a risk. The seven sisters are having to defend and out smart the authority to change the system and live a better life. They have to risk their lives to have the ability to live, and the society does not know any other way they go along with population control because they believe the kids are being frozen for a better society. This concept of being hopeless to capitalism because we do not know any other way is just like the movie What Happened to Monday. Then in chapter 4 Fisher calls this ‘depressive hedonia:’ wherein constant distraction and stimulation is the only solution to hopelessness. From reading the book a concept that has stuck with me from chapter 3 there is no other option than capitalism that capitalism has limitless resources and that capitalism has infinite affective ability to withstand the pressures of capitalism, including individualization and the privatization of tension, in the absence of the kinds of societies that capitalism despises. The movie What Happened to Monday there is an overarching theme of capitalism, as stated prior these sisters have to work together to live.
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