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Berman's point in the Goethe section seems to be that modernity is profoundly and irredeemably faustian, and the only way out is through, through more faustian bargains. But this is the way out of the human, and indication only of the railroad we were already tied to. It is not a revelation, but an impossibility—the idea that more capital could lead us anywhere but the destruction of the human soul.