In Christopher Nolan’s opaque gem, Tenet, the future is attempting to destroy the present. From what I could understand, in the future environmental degradation endangers the human race; so the men of the future decide to destroy their ancestors, i.e. us. The idea seems to be that by sending signals back in time to Kenneth Branagh’s Ukrainian villain Andrei Sator, they can arrange a temporal reversal which will basically wipe out everything that has existed up until the future, leaving the future humans intact but presumably unmoored from the past and able to remake their planet or something.

It’s pleasingly complex. Sator seems to refer to the Sator square:

I note also that George Tenet was CIA Director from 1997 to 2004, perhaps relevant in such a film as Tenet. Certainly, there is a mysterious note to Christopher Nolan, a memetic resonance; thus the odd prescience in his Batman trilogy.

Reflecting on Tenet, one could say that for the last few decades we have been at war with the past. Most of the Leftists I know would quite happily annihilate everything before they were born; indeed, they usually know nothing about the world before their birth, what they think they know being simple-minded propaganda about slavery and patriarchy and evil Christianity. They grow up watching TV shows like Channel 5’s upcoming Anne Boleyn, starring, well, this as the title character:

The average Leftist, granted access to a time travel machine, would use it to go back in time and kill everyone on the planet. I dare say the Leftist would begin with white men, but then even women in the past are guilty of Wrongthink, so they have to go too; and since Leftism is inherently & necessarily destructive, after wiping out all white people in the past, the good Leftist would need to kill more people, and since the white race apparently evolved from Africans, the only way to be sure is to kill everyone on the planet. And since Africans apparently evolved from apes or something, the apes would need to be exterminated. And so on.

Leftism is often criticised as “utopian thinking”. However, I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with utopian thinking, provided it is modified by contact with reality. Right- and Left-wing utopian thinking can be distinguished by motivation and the measure of pure imaginal content. Right-wing utopian thinking is either about some glorious sci-fi future (Millennial Woes’ One Hour from Now speech) or a wish to return to an earlier time; but it’s mostly the latter, meaning it can draw upon real societies as they recently were, instead of imagining a future wholly different to the present and past.

In addition, most of the Right-wingers I’ve met are motivated by love for a certain form of life (the quiet, safe, homogeneous societies of their youth; or a form of life that ended before they were born) and they are only secondarily hostile to that which would destroy this. Every single Leftist I’ve got to know has turned out to be a venomous reptile, motivated by hatred for European culture and European peoples. In reality, their utopian fantasies of the workers’ paradise are incidental to their hatred for white people and European civilisation and culture. The hatred comes first. Hence, the Leftist makes war upon the present and the past, and the utopian thinking is etymologically so – utopia meaning nowhere; for the Leftist is fighting to destroy the present in order to create nothing and nowhere and no one – utter non-being, the paradise of all such haters.

Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint!
Und das mit Recht; denn alles was entsteht
ist wert daß es zu Grunde geht;
Drum besser wär’s daß nichts entstünde.
So ist denn alles was ihr Sünde,
Zerstörung, kurz das Böse nennt,
Mein eigentliches Element.

I am the Spirit that Denies!
And justly so: for all things, from the Void
Called forth, deserve to be destroyed:
‘Twere better, then, were naught created.
Thus, all which you as Sin have rated,—
Destruction,—aught with Evil blent,—
That is my proper element.