system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is it so exceedingly difficult for us to think beyond capitalism? How have we come to embrace what one author has called “capitalist realism”? Why is it easier for us to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, to quote Žižek, or whoever it is that said it?

Some might say that this question belongs in an anthropological, sociological, historical or some other sub, but I disagree. I think it is a genuine philosophical question (which is not to say that philosophers shouldn’t rely on sciences and humanities in dealing with it.) How have we come to this point?  

EDIT: I must sincerely say that I haven’t expected so many (and substantive at that) replies.  

****Thank you! I have already read Fisher’s book, merely for the record, and recommend it to everyone. I hope this thread will be as useful to others as it has been for me!****
gpt
As Fisher himself aptly pointed out, capital has a way of capturing all dissidence, monetizing it, and reproducing it as capital, such that it mutes actual dissidence. Refer back to his Wall-E reference earlier on in the book. Wall-E, a profoundly anti-capitalist movie, grossed millions and millions of dollars. It gave people the *feeling* of activism without requiring them to lift a finger. All they had to do was consume, take the point, feel vindicated for agreeing, and move on with their lives.