Why don't the masses rebel against their oppressors but participate in the institutions of their own enslavement?
For the same reasons a beta male in a wolf pack dominated by a breeding dominant pair participate in their offspring's upbringing; for the same reason a sheep born and raised on a farm will refuse to run off into the wilds even though no fences are preventing it from doing so; for the same reason a man marries a woman with another man's children and raises them as if they were his own.
Genetic identification is replaced by memetic identifications.
The enlightenment replaces Abraham's one-god with a singular humanity with no biological identity, i.e., a purified theoretical concept within which every individual man is but a representation of the divine.
Postmodernism presents totalitarianism as an external coercion imposing an identity on individuals, and this would include nature.
Everyone is different but only on a superficial level, because all, are simultaneously part of a unified whole - the multiple faces and transmutations of an underlying one-god, a singularity.
Enlightenment, according to these freaks, is still limited by natural order, by scientific empiricism. Man can only be "liberated" by letting go of the tangible, the physical, the empirical, and let his mind soar, imagining whatever self he/she desires.
Capitalism gave the masses a good lifestyle, one which they did not want to sacrifice. the mases never reached the levels of impoverishment and loss of hope that would trigger a rebellion, so now "reality" or natural order is the "oppressor", because these freaks need an oppressor to feel victimized by.
For the herd of manimals to revolt reality itself must be vilified - ergo objectivity is the Satanic, capitalistic, exploiter of the mases, preventing them form realizing their innate "freedom".
By "status quo" they mean the tangible - sum of all past nurturing = nature. Liberating the mind form the perceptible, the traditional, the natural, so as to imagine alternative worlds.
The mind - i.e., spirit - has to be "liberated" by a totalitarian physical form, just as Jesus was liberated from his physical body, his human form, to be reborn pure ideal -mirroring the one-god's pure idealistic essence. Son - Jesus - rejoins father - god = logos. The one-god is pure noumenon, represented by logos - the noetic made tangible or externalized as writing, or the spoken word.
In this case it is money that liberates man to achieve his imagined potentials - money = logos, the code, the language of freedom.
Disconnect from reality is a form of madness.
But then "health" had to be discredited to make madness nonsensical. Released from normality man's artistry is liberated to explore its madness.
The body lacks a normal state so as to liberate the mind from its limitations. There is no "madness" all are freely expressing their innate divine essence - reflecting divine order, every forms of insanity another representation of universal divinity.
An assault on Puritan decency and politeness.
"Imagine reality as other than what it is".
First you lose trust in your own senses - what you see is not what is.
To close your eyes so as to sample, from memory, what was real, and invent a new reality, unhindered by the tangible.
Postmodernism breaks free from modernity's scientific empiricism.
Nature is now the oppressor, and so nature must be rejected and denied. There is no "human nature". The body is not the self.
We return to Abrahamism's superstitions about the immortality of the human spirit.
Linguistic longevity becomes the model for human immortality - as long as the meme survives, through semiotics - it lives on.
Selfish genes replaced by selfish memes.
Mortality gained not via genetic reproduction but via ideological, i.e., memetic, reproduction.