Levels of false consciousness

Regarding a conversation I had with Corey after watching the final instalment of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", about the myth of racial superiority within the population of The Congo which was proliferated by the Belgian colonial masters, ultimately, as a means of divide and rule; specifically, the psychology of the subjects, both perpetrators and victims:

The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (more a liberal than a socialist) described cynicism as a third level of false consciousness: first comes deceit (being the perpetrator or the victim of it), then comes ideology (‘they don’t know it, but they’re doing it’ - Slavoj Zizek paraphrasing Marx), and finally there is cynicism. The cynic knows the falseness of what he is doing and yet he does it all the same. This might sound like deceit but there is an important difference. The deceiver deceives for his own immediate gain, i.e. in order to overcome something; he still retains a sense of struggle with the world, even if he is on the side of the victor and not the victim. The deceiver’s Nietzschean instinct, his will to power, is still intact. Whereas the cynic has decisively abandoned all of this. This isn’t to say that he lacks self interest - he has plenty of it. But he has successfully dissolved his self interest in the great sea of the status quo. He draws every sustenance, every vital need from submission to the status quo. What’s missing from the emotional profile of the cynic are things like joy, sadness, courage - and yes, anger.

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/opinion/16546-antidotes-to-cynicism-and-fear-a-reply-to-dan-hodges