ABSTRACT
Within capitalism, there is, at the intellectual and bodily level, a pressure to conform to given patterns of thought and syllogisms, even at the most trivial level. Nothing is exempt from this unpleasant influence. A few minutes of application to anyone of the mass media, and the sad banality and repetitiousness of capitalist reality talking about itself cannot fail to register. Yet, it is clear that it is precisely this repetitious banality that ensures capitalist survival, for in most cases it engenders habituation. From the housewife with her TV set that is never switched off, to the teacher of any high-level academic subject, failure to conform to the over-arching logic means not to communicate, or so it seems. As a consequence, the only space left for criticism appears to be to concentrate on the faults of this or that particular, instead of considering the whole.
