I believe cperciva&#x27;s more trying to convey deep existential angst moreso than immediate threat.<p>His post is shot in black and white, as he is smoking while sitting in an cafe on an otherwise abandoned European street, when the desultory wind blows in a creased newspaper with the headline &quot;MODULAR MATH FOUND NOT TO WORK&quot;, and he turns to look at the camera with a slowly developing look of pure horror that the camera person spends a full 5 minutes in exploring every last nuance of. Just over two minutes in, a violinist wearing a tutu wanders in, plays some 12-tone music, delivers a poorly subtitled rumination on the ultimate futility of life and its connection to prime number elliptic curves, and then leaves, for no apparent reason.<p>It&#x27;s moving stuff, for certain audiences.