The universal future is an abstract, indifferent container emptied of ekstatic meaning.

Evidence

What than is the universal future? We must view it as the abstract context of that hierarchy of equivalents which are the futures, a container of reciprocal exteriorities which is itself exteriority, a sum of in-itselfs which is itself in-itself. That is, whatever may be the probable which is to prevail, there is and there will be a future. But due to this very fact, that future, indifferent and external to the present and composed of “nows,” each one indifferent to the others and reunited by the substantiated relation of before-after (in so far as this relation, emptied of its ekstatic character has no longer anything but the meaning of an external negation)—this future is a series of empty containers reunited with one another in the unity of dispersion. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 648

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved; Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved; Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future

Broader Connections

• Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future #contradicts (0.85)
• The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved #qualifies (0.78)