And I think there's this obsession on what came before because maybe we're unable to imagine new ideas, new art.

Yeah, I think about this again.

This is a very famous bit from capitalism, from capitalist realism, where Fisher's talking about Children of Men, which is a great movie, maybe one of the great movies of the 21st century.

And he's talking about Clive Owen's character going to visit his friend who's at Battersea Power Station.

And his friend's job is to kind of like catalogue all of the stuff from the past.

And, you know, there's the Led Zeppelin blimp floating outside and this famous artwork on the wall.

And Clive Owen's character says, you know, why are you even doing like, do you think, do you ever think about what the point of this is? You know, in a situation where there won't be anything new, when the future does look worse than the present.

Tell us why that is.

I'm sorry.

sorry.Master of Mankind? Master of Mankind, yes.

Thank you so much.

He demonstrates something very middle Platonian, which is this very depressing scene in which he's not able to think beyond syllogisms.

There's not even any formal propositional logic, no. It's just [laughs] humanity, uh, likes religion, likes to dream, therefore- Mm-hmm ... we need to elevate it into a psychic race, therefore my will is law.

That's it.

That's like, so if we are a psychic race, therefore I am allowed and I am justified in dictating this natural teleology.

They don't know where to place their desire for ethical seriousness, and thus kind of like end up despondent and go like, "Well, you know, what are you gonna do? What are you, what are you supposed to do when you were born in this system, and, like, people didn't know any better?" This is a tired, very tired excuse that we have seen throughout history of, like, literally the most grueling and horrible things that have happened in human history itself.