According to the postmodern mantra, there is no firm reality, just the multitude of contingent social constructions. - Žižek

... Ok, but where is the fetish which enables you to (pretend to) accept reality "the way it is"?

"Western Buddhism" is such a fetish: it enables you to fully participate in the frantic pace of the capitalist game while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it, that you are well aware how worthless this spectacle is - what really matters to you is the peace of the inner Self to which you know you can always withdraw...

Žižek