A stark look at our immaterial obsessions.

Relativism is essential to understand the reality in which we live. It serves, let's say, as a fundamental axis to the dominant worldview of the Western world. Both in social networks and in private conversations between friends, passing through the majority media, relativism has become a conceptual tool of forced use.

From Don Quixote to the concept of ideology present in science fiction cinema, through abstract art, the philosophy of science, self-help, gender studies, postmodern philosophy, inclusive language, the financialization of the economy or development of the new virtual reality, this work shows how material reality is gradually being discredited in favor of GPS, the map, and mental representation. We contemplate, from a historical perspective, the process through which we transfer the primordial contents of our life from the material to the representational sphere; a process closely linked to the development of capitalism, in which the growing precariousness of society is offset by a symbolic drug addiction that forces us to consume our own desires in virtual spaces. Ultimately, it is about alleviating the growing lack of purchasing power through overcompensation in the sphere of the symbolic.