The Big Scene is the Anthropological Basis of Anarchist Ontology

That's a way of speaking about the originary scene--anything one says about the originary scene will be universal in the sense of applicable to all scenes. The Big Scene is specifically post-Big Man, even post-imperial, when it becomes possible to imagine circumventing the fact that all scenes are specific. Every human was, in fact, present on the originary scene, but this universal presence can only be simulated afterward.

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I avoid using terms that I haven't worked through myself, and Sartre's "neant" falls into that category. But, yes, to put it in a really basic way, the Big Scene remembers the horizontal dimension of the scene while forgetting the vertical. If the scene is purely horizontal, we have a "come as you are situation"--there's no basis for giving anyone priority over anyone else, for any purpose. To use a contemporary example, open borders is the logical conclusion--why shouldn't anyone be able to come into the country? But the forgetting of the center is really antagonism toward the center, because as soon as any thought is given to the most basic "maintenance" of any scene whatsoever, a center is at least implicitly referenced, and that referenced center draws upon itself all the terror associated with all the other possible centers.

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I think it will apply anywhere the Axial Age acquisitions take the kind of anti-imperial imperial form I describe here. That has certainly been far more the case in the West than elsewhere.