Götterdämmerung capitalism
 

Robinson 298: "The Götterdämmerung Syndrome, as with most violent pathologies, is more often seen in men than women. It is often interprested as an example of narcissitic rage. Those who feel it are usually privileged and entitled, and they become extremely angry when their privileges and sense of entitlement are being taken away"
 
"For the narcissist, the other is too fearful to register, and thus the individual death of the narcissist represents the end of everything real; as a result, death for the narcissist becomes even more fearful and disastrous than it is for people who accept the reality of the other and the continuance of the world beyond their individual end"
 
"[A]s death approaches, they do their best to destroy as much of the world as they can"
 
"The phrase Götterdämmerung capitalism has been seen"

> from Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future (2020)

> tagged with #capitalism, #other

> created May 28, 2025 at 10:12:25 AM


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