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Delsol begins by establishing the "predicament modern humanity finds themselves in—an existence without meaning". She argues that the fall of both religious and secular ideologies has left a void. Without a transcendent framework, people struggle to find meaning because, as she suggests, to find meaning one must stand for something larger than oneself. The modern trend of rejecting all "figures of existence"—religion, morality, economics, and politics—has stripped life of structure, leading to a reliance on cheap "black market" substitutes that offer no real fulfillment. Without a transcendent framework, people struggle to find
Delsol asks us to imagine a different outcome: What if he crashed back down to earth, bruised, confused, and alive, having lost his wings but not his life? This, she argues, is the situation of Western man today.
She argues this has created a "morality of complacency" and a "morality of emotion," where ethics are defined not by a search for the objective good, but by subjective reactions of indignation towards what is perceived as evil. This results in a society without a structured ethical system, one consumed by self-interest and subjectivity, and haunted by a "correct thinking" that prevents a genuine search for meaning.