Quick notes on capitalist ontology: Why "there is no 'why' here" (the word at Auschwitz)

"Why is anything what it is?" or “Why is there anything at all and not nothing?”

This philosophical question has two kinds of answer.

-1, There is a reason, you can find out what it is.   (In general, the answers have been of the form): The appearance is caused by the essence, which can be found at the origin, it is the cause. 

The ‘religious’ form of this is that Being is caused by God; what is is produced and authorized by an agency considered holy.  This answer is appropriate to a society that is largely organized by an educational system, because the economy is run by a bureaucracy.  Societally, this answer was best represented at least until recently by Europe and particularly France.

-2.  There is no reason; things just are as they are, because things just are.  What is, is; what will be, will be.  “There is no ‘why’ here” (said at Auschwitz, per Primo Levi).  

The ‘secular’ form of this is that Being is God.  And just as, Biblically, God “is/will be what he is/will be,” Being is what it is and will be what it will be.  You can worship it; you can also fuck off.  In other words, shut up and get back to work; mind your own business and do what you are told.  That is the whole of the teaching, the rest is bullshit pretending to be commentary, so fuck off. 

This answer is the more typical American one.

This answer is appropriate in a capitalist society where authority is invested more in the prerogatives of private property owners, independent of any bureaucratic or democratic procedures that would be dependent on rational discourse as a publicly available good.