“What matters for understanding the contemporary moment is the disintegration of meanings and realities, not as a direct consequence of the stranglehold of established forces on reality, but on the contrary as a central indicator of their loss of control, because they are incapable of preventing or limiting the shifts, drifts, diversions, dilutions of the historical order that they nevertheless claim to continue to embody.” Louis de Colmar

To put it another way, it would seem that the more the system tries to strengthen its control measures over the social structure, to strengthen its grip, the more it participates in its confusion and incoherence. If, as a result, this society becomes more and more unlivable, we must not only see the totalitarian reinforcement that accompanies it, but also the signs of the dissolution of this system.

We cannot confine the living in a straitjacket of artificiality without consequences for the whole. The ideology of capitalism, of the market system, is now in the process of colliding head-on with its own contradictions. We are no longer here in a projection of what could happen (as in Marx’s analyses) but in the historical time of this dissolution.

This does not give us the keys to getting out of it, but it can prevent us from getting lost in erroneous interpretations of the present situation.