This chapter illustrates the profound shift in Brazil’s collective imagination by contrasting two cultural moments. The first is an anecdote of two musicians on the São Paulo subway: one playing classic protest music (MPB) to an indifferent audience, the other singing a contemporary worship song to an engaged one. This highlights the transition from a community bound by a national-political project to one defined by a language of personal faith and deliverance. The second moment is an analysis of Roberto Schwarz’s critique of the film Cabra Marcado para Morrer, which itself documents the transformation of a collective peasant struggle in the 1960s into the isolated quest of a lone filmmaker two decades later. Two participants from the original movement become evangelicals, marking a definitive break with their political past. The chapter argues that these examples demonstrate the “cutting of the thread of the skein” of Brazilian life, where the hope for a collective future has been replaced by faith in an otherworldly redemption.