orgies of cheerfulness/descriptions of an illness

Noted in passing:
Capitalism seems to produce momentary (and lengthier) orgies of joyful cynicism, based upon no real thought or reflection.  --Surely not based upon logic or "empirical" research---resulting in joyful outbursts, exclamations of the obvious truth that it's "all" about money, or that someone's behavior---and the individual is never anyone we know or have even met----is surely based upon the most selfish or profit-seeking of motives.......