For the last fifty years or so (Since the Cold War started, go figure) more emphasis has been put on the ideologically repressing aspect of Capitalism. It's been theorized by many continental philosophers (Funnily enough, most of them Jewish) that Capitalisim has infiltrated our culture so much that we are now mostly revolutionarily impotent and so unable to detach ourselves from the international buzz of consumer driven progress that we cannot comprehend a world without Capitalism. The train of thought, much expressed about Socialism, that damns human nature for being greedy and self-centered could be seen as our inability to think outside the box, further tightening the hold that banal Huxleyan consumerism has on us.
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I do get very annoyed when people do that. It's pretty much my most hated logical fallacy.
Also, Capitalism works in spirals and you can't have booms without depressions.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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