Adam felt it in his ribs in Genesis. George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway felt it as they put pen to paper and sauntered through the streets of Paris. The feeling is a tipping point between the natural, evolutionarily robotic and the passionate, soulful man. The feeling comes in a moment to men who sought to be resolute as they fell into destitution with a void they knew existed, but knew not with what to fill it — the profound loneliness of man.

Enter Arthur Fleck, the lead character in the new movie Joker.