These fetishized things we allow to rule us, while we alienate our humanity to those who wield the power in our society-capitalists. The reality of our robotic existence as slaves to the irrational and vicious system of profit accumulation pains my heart and fuels my revolutionary activity. In 1998 we are treated to a dead-on description of reification through Peter Weir's film The Truman Show. The Truman Show allows me to explain some aspects of reification. They think that the current condition of their life is the way it has always been.
Reified workers have no sense of history.
Further, they have no sense that they are reified. Their condition of being cogs in the capitalist machine obediently and voluntarily walking in to work every day to make profit for the boss seems natural. When you suggest that life could be different, the reified worker stares vacantly at you, incapable of comprehending what you are talking about. An interviewer in the movie asked Cristoff, who plays the part of the absolutely powerful and authoritarian director, why Truman had never come close to discovering the true nature of his world. Workers are actors in a capitalist drama.