Reading pgs 130-134 and it's amazing how, after almost a century, we still haven't necessarily progressed beyond the two ideological answers they had to 'The Issue of Modernity' in the early 20thC—nationalism + socialism, neither of which (I think) are tenable.

Maybe every generation feels this, but it seems like we're spiraling towards another crisis of the liberal-capitalist order, and again we see the rise of Socialism on left and Nationalism on the right. "However, they both entail questions and dangers, and very serious ones."

Not ranting to provide an answer to the problem, or why we are still stuck with these two main answers after all this time, cuz I don't have any yet! Mainly just wanna say Doctor Faustus is a good book, and art really is in some sense "timeless" as they say

(also, obviously we do have other possible answers like anarchism, accelerationism, intergralism, etc—don't want to downplay the important and interesting work thinkers have been doing. Just meant that despite all that, these still seems like *the big two* we can't move on from)