One of the many ways we can diminish our incepted tendency to impulsively consume is to consider who might benefit from our questionable habit. Thankfully, it doesn’t take a genius or crackpot conspiracy theorist to see that consumer-slop corporations and the governing bodies enabling them are, by and large, the ones who benefit the most from psyopic consumerism.

In fact, the interest shared by mega corporations and global governments in maintaining the status quo has birthed something notably distinct, something which I call The Capitalist Government. And even though this phrase is new, and the actions it describes are constantly evolving, their origins have been well documented throughout the ages. Secrete alliances forged by “donations” between politicians and lobbyists, government officials trading on and influencing market-volatility, and legislative staffers increasingly participating in prediction markets are all symptoms of the Capitalist Government. Even a cursory glance at the misdeeds of governments prove they are just as obsessed with “number go up” as the sili-brained bean counters who operated in private markets.

While most essays of this sort leave things here I refuse to limit the scope of this note to black-pilled fodder. Even though it’s true our government has been sold to the capitalists, that sili-brain bean counters have bought, sold, influenced, and dictated the regulatory and legislative infrastructure by which they are supposedly bound , not all is lost. There are politicians working deep within The System who seem to want to make  difference. Laws, as we have seen are mutable, and with enough grit we can mutate them in our favor. And most of all,  according to Viktor Frankl,  in reference to the Nazis who held him in a concentration camp “no group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.” Which means, that even in our bullshit, sold-out, broken, and corrupted  political system there is a case for hope, and a case for believing things could be changed for the better.