We now know that modern man did not win the Faustian wager in which he had hoped to free himself entirely from his condition. He was unable to inaugurate a new era free from the conflicts between good and evil, need and scarcity. Although he did make a serious attempt to lift all peoples out of the scorned categories of the human condition, the failure of this attempt can be seen in the spontaneous and unexpected re-emergence of everything we had rejected. The figures of human existence are again developing in spite of their illegitimacy. Ban the economy and the black maket will blossom. Decree that religions are obsolete and you will have sects. Deny that human beings seek the good, and the ghost of the good will appear surreptitiously under the guise of correct thinking. Societies that attempt to rid themselves of the figures of economics, religion, and morality must put up with them in their black market form. We are witnessing the emergence of a low-profile world that defies conceptualization because it is forbidden, repressed; it is illegal or illegitimate, or both at the same time.

— Chantal Delsol, Icarus Fallen