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“Every kind of passion is being transformed into a form of industry. Every passion is monetized or at least expected to be. This can be observed in schools, shows, articles, conferences, films, advertisements, and even within the primitive instincts of humans: the relentless conversion of passion into profession, the monetization of personal emotions and thoughts. This message is constantly propagated, taught, and encouraged by all of these forces. More than that, it is what people dream of—because they all embody identities scripted by singular capitalist narratives. And this constitutes the greatest insult to one’s inner world.”

“In the future, everything will be free. Everything will be liberated, and thus stripped of permanence, solidity, stability, certainty, and coherence. The identities people embrace will become shapeable like water—so much so that the very notion of identity will vanish. Because if everything can be anything, if everything can be labeled, defined, decorated, and marketed endlessly, then nothing is anything. An era will arrive that is so “free,” so soaked in infinite rights, that a rare few who glimpse the fundamental slavery hidden within this endless liberty will begin to yearn for authoritarian and totalitarian regimes—as if feeling nostalgia for one’s own tyrant.”

“...and once people start to believe in these categories, their imagination becomes domesticated. Since capitalism doesn't only shape lives but also identities, they begin to critique themselves using the system’s own logic—feeling guilt for not being “productive,” anxiety for not being “attractive,” or shame for not being “confident and sociable.”