The Petty Bourgeois Snob

The immense majority seems to be spontaneously united in a culture where marketing for realisable desires has only one aim in mind, that of giving oneself pleasure, to the exclusion of all else. In other words, the capitalist system is not simply functioning by exploitation and oppression but also through the support of most of the exploited for the very system that exploits, despoils and oppresses them. It functions therefore through psychological and moral alienation, nourished by the hope of personal success. This work could be called "socio-analytic", in the sense that it aims to give us a full, up-to-date understanding of what might be called the "social unawareness" our socialisation process has assimilated, and that now conditions such spontaneous support of the established order.