It's been two thousand years since the events of the previous chapter, and the narrator is still trying to figure out what's going on. He doesn't really know what he's talking about, but he does know that there's something "remarkably leftover" from the people who lived in the past. He's not sure what it is, and he wants to move on to the future. He tells the audience that this world is based on the rules of the past, and that the future will be based on these rules. He also tells them that there is another "thing" that's much stronger than they are, and it's the "foundation builder" of this new world. The narrator reminds us that books are banned in the new world, but that there are other things that can exist, like basic education and professional skills. The old man keeps talking about books, but the narrator says that the old man likes them too much to stop. He wants to know what the outcome will be if the world continues to follow the old rules, because he'd like to know if it'll be a good thing or a bad thing. He asks the narrator to grip his face, and then he asks him to open the mirror. He grabs the mirror, and when he sees the man's face, he calls him "useless trash" . He says that when he touches the man, he can see all the emotions in his face. This means that the man has become