The powerful critique of modern society and the commodification of human existence. The author argues that our current civilization is built on a foundation of violence, greed, and profit, and that this has created a world in which human beings are reduced to mere commodities, stripped of their humanity and their ability to lead fulfilling lives. The author begins by describing the "long night of the commodity," which refers to the pervasive influence of the market on all aspects of human life. This has created a society in which everything is reduced to a price tag, and in which people are treated as mere objects to be bought and sold. The author then goes on to argue that this commodification has created a world in which human beings are no longer able to live fulfilling lives. Instead, we are reduced to "patient embryos withering in the social test tube of profitability, and damned beings who will never be their own masters because they belong to a power whose divine mantle has been torn off and stripped the ideological flesh to reveal the skeletal mechanism of their abstraction: economics." The author argues that this system is fundamentally flawed, and that it is time for a revolution that will bring about a new way of living. This revolution will be based on the rejection of the commodity and the pursuit of life's true pleasures. The author describes the growing boredom and disillusionment with the joys of survival, which are nothing more than the pleasures of an upside-down world. Instead, the author argues, we must embrace unreserved lust and gratuitous pleasure as the only weapons we have against the system that seeks to control us. The author argues that the revolution is no longer about the rejection of survival, but about the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of the self. This will require the destruction of the dominant system, which is built on the commodification of human existence. The author concludes by warning that those who oppose this revolution will do so with unimagined violence. They will seek to maintain the status quo, even if it means destroying those who seek to change it. However, the author is optimistic that the revolution will ultimately succeed, and that we will be able to build a new world based on the freedom of pleasure and the rejection of the commodity.
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