the particular period in which we live, since roughly the mid-1970s, coterminous with neoliberalism, financialization, and capitalist globalization

[...] From the false freedom of the "gig economy to the sabotaged charity of subprime and microfinance loans, capitalism's contemporary logic is to, in a profoundly destructive way, make each and every human into not only a source of exploitable labor power but a small-time agent of capitalist accumulation. That most of us will fail is irrelevant: we will be told our failure is our own fault, or sold a fantasy that our failure is the result of Others who cheated in the game (migrants, minorities, "special interests").

we create ourselves and find our way in the world in the abeyance between fantasy and self-actualization, Hamlet's interregnum, we might call it

Hamlet dwells in the realm of fantasy, generating endless prevaricating schemes

[...] revenge fantasy may ironically be the only way to maintain one's humanity in a situation of relentless dehumanization. To dream of revenge is, in part, to hold fast to the knowledge that what you love has value in a world where it is made worthless. [...]

the demotic actualization of revenge fantasy in the form of support for hyper-reactionary governments