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Our contemporaneity shows us starkly in a kind of collective neurosis suffocated by the toxic omnipresence of a merely instrumental rationality that leaves no room or flaw for criticism. Cruel, miserable and merciless mirror, the watchtower of neoliberal instrumental reason contemplates the world from the same uncritical intestines with the "nature" of the market. If empathetic and politically committed actions produce aversion and repugnance on the part of a colonized and sublimated model around consumption, developing both the genealogy of the model and thinking about possible hopeful or promethean scenarios is not an exercise in futility or nihilism, but represents the urgency of naming, to force us, at least, to conceive systems that are at the very least, a way of life, at least, to conceive alternative systems, and to escape from the false skeptical rhetorics that impel us to reduce every historical or political event to a reductive abstraction with the simple mantra that everything outside the discursive center of consumerism as the existential center of civilization is extremism and, therefore, discardable and repugnant.