The politics of eternity, which prioritizes nostalgia and past cycles over future policy, is a form of political system that leads to catastrophe.

“Everything's a cycle back towards the past. The leading politicians are talking about how to make the country great again, you know, which is, I think, senseless.”

Tyranny is the inevitable outcome of a society that abdicates personal responsibility in favor of hedonism and dependence on external authorities.

“And so there's a vicious spiral, right, as the populace degenerates into short-term immature materialist hedenism and the rulers gather up all the responsibility and use it as power. They become simultaneously contemptuous of the people they're called upon to regulate and treat them worse and worse.”