I think the 21st century started in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. This country is at its zenith. This is a country where practically everyone in the world wants to get in - it's free, wealthy and exciting. My real interest is in the subject of status, which has to do with how people group themselves, rank themselves. And it's not all about trying to rise to the next level.
Many people spend their lives trying to maintain a certain status.
Many don't have the slightest desire to move up in the world, just to hang on to what they have. It's more my love of that subject, not an overarching concern about the Zeitgeist. But if you get into that you can't avoid dealing with the Zeitgeist. If Nietzsche is right, there's going to be greater and greater despair. He has not been a bad prophet.