Note that even in the animosity between the symbol-stages you can see a certain progression—as the earlier stages are more insensitively hostile to one another. Symbol-stage D Postfaustian simply kills deviants and threatens with hell for eternity; symbol-stage E Modern despises the former but certainly lets them live; and symbol-stage F Postmodern mocks and condemns modernity but not more than that; whereas symbol-stage G Metamodern teases postmodernism a bit, but then seeks synthesis and reconciliation between all of the former symbol-stages.
