In a spiritual desert marked by the decline of technological civilization, capitalism as mammonism and democracy as tyranny of the majority are discussed as the man repeatedly explains them to his wife in everyday language, binding her death to the death of civilization and collapsing his sense of future and transmissible meaning.

On that matter, he had spoken again and again to his wife, in everyday language that she too could understand.
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However, this man was in a somewhat special position.
In the desert state of the human spirit called the “decline of technological civilization,” capitalism is a poisonous flower blooming in that desert under the name of mammonism or money fetishism, and democracy is a sandstorm blowing there under the name of populism or the tyranny of the majority.
On that matter, he had spoken again and again to his wife, in everyday language that she too could understand.
Because he had been doing such things, “the death of his wife” and “the death of civilization” became firmly bound together in his own world of images.
Therefore, it seems that his sense of time not yet arrived, or time just about to arrive, has contracted to the point of becoming almost zero.
In other words, he cannot help but feel that there is nothing more to convey to those who come after.
What does it mean that this old man is still alive, even though there is almost nothing left for him to do.
This manuscript continues.