An age can have its own sickness: widespread emptiness, cynicism, and a quiet belief that life has no meaning.
This “mass” condition is portrayed as private nihilism: people may function outwardly while feeling internally unanchored.
A danger is the reduction of the person to “nothing but” biology, conditioning, or environment—because it breeds fatalism and excuses surrender.
The counterforce is a view of the human being as capable of taking a stand—limited, pressured, but not erased.