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Write a comprehensive, elaborate research that proceeds on the premise of Frederic Jameson, that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism, situating it within the context of modern science fiction against the backdrop of the real world. The idea of"ultrarich chosen few" establishing a postapocalyptic world order (or, it is better to call it Remains-of-the-World Order) has been around for some time since perhaps the second half of the XX century. One of the earliest examples is Philip K. Dick\'s \"Penultimate Truth." Today, well-received TV Shows based on more humble sources, computer games, and self-published book series deliver the narrative to a wide audience. Obviously, I refer here to Christopher Nolan’s"Fallout" show and to"Silo." Both stand out as epitomes of this particular narrative: a speculative assumption about capitalism that survives the world. Unlike traditional postapocalyptic tropes, if the survivor of the world-destroying event is capitalism, those who will, at least by initial plan, repopulate the planet, would be managers, CEOs, and the others in-between, given they belong to the management floor. The floor— as a metaphor and privileged position— becomes the new class / strata. To underscore the idea, another notable recent sci-fi show can be recalled: Snowpiercer! There, the capitalists, the true actors behind the climatic catastrophe that turned Earth from almost to none inhabitable, even managed to take THE RABBLE with them: their private army of the poor, the hungry, and oppressed. There, the stratification is wagon-bound. By the same token, this"fiction" is not really a fiction anymore in the world of the Big Tech empires headed by persons who, alas, love to think of themselves as rather bad thinkers or are themselves a rabble— a Silicon Valley mob of rich, reflexive but parochial to the degree of failing to meet their own standards like effective altruism and the like. Silo’s Ep. 09, Season 3, reveals that, actually, the show\'s Bezos\'s (Per Stensen, the richest human of that historical timeline) plans go as far as our Pers Stensens\': leaning heavily in direction of speculative privatization [of astronomic objects with resources extraction]. What we see is a hyperstition, the fiction (scientific or not) melted down with fancies and fantasies of those who currently push humanity into oblivious and amorphous things to come. You take it from here. That said, I want you to focus on a deep research into this new form of communicate Jameson\'s provocation, which clearly takes some shapes and gets a foothold in the real—just as any hyperstition does! Look for other relevant ideas in relevant cultural products (e.g., Murder at the End of the World has this premise, although it ends before the corporate takeover of the world's legacy remains). If none so clearly fitting into the trope exist aside from these (i hope I am mistaken), then anyway, in actually all cases, it is necessary that you ruminate on that deeply, as philosophers, as cultural theorists, and culture's critics.