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    We explore Mark Fisher's haunting idea that imagining the end of the world is easier than envisioning alternatives to capitalism, examining how market logic colonizes consciousness and limits our collective imagination.

    Capitalism's Mental Prison

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    Capitalist realism is this pervasive sense that capitalism is the only viable economic and political system, and that it's impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it. If we can't imagine alternatives, we can't create them.

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