In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Starck imagines “finishing” our current civilization not as an act of destruction for its own sake, but as the end of an exhausted cultural narrative—industrial modernity’s promises, habits, and aesthetics. The time horizon (50–60 years) frames this as a generational project: today’s adults can help bring a worn-out system to its conclusion so that children inherit room to create rather than merely maintain. “A new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism” suggests a renewal of meaning and feeling—an ethical and imaginative re-founding of culture—implying that design and creativity should participate in reshaping values, not just producing objects.