Also, more hopefully, it said that if we were to realise this, and somehow make connections between our several hardships, we would be taking the first step towards doing something we seemed to have mostly forgotten about by the late Noughties: mounting an organised resistance. In a political system which endlessly promoted the notion that we were all alone, Fisher’s book announced that we were suffering together. In a society where everything was arranged to make you think that emotional well-being began and ended with your own personal psychodrama, perhaps the most important thing Capitalist Realism did was to suggest that mental suffering might have something to do with structural flaws in society as a whole. For me, and for many others, encountering Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism in 2009 felt like coming up for air.
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