We fashion aesthetics, picturings, of past dystopias in an attempt to avoid them. Jack-booted thugs, etc. (Which, to be fair, is sometimes necessary due to the danger of imitation.) But if you are acting in a craven manner and causing harm, you are creating that which the observers will eventually fashion an aesthetic around and learn to fear, and to teach others to fear. And the aesthetic, or picturing, which is to say, the sense of how it is with the world, will then necessarily describe you. This might be the place just beyond where the thinker sits.
