Beyond the moment

“And they have no purpose that unites them, so they blunder through life until they die. Which they know is coming, yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens. They’re incapable of thinking beyond the moment.”

Anya

In the context of the TV show, the short monologue from where the piece is taken is even meaningful, and yet somehow debatable, especially the in last sentence, because… perhaps they can’t afford to think beyond the moment, otherwise they simply couldn’t go on.