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And when you die, you can choose to resurrect at the last site of grace you activated or a special statue you’ve passed, potentially saving you from an arduous re-tread through a difficult area.

“He doesn’t want to re-tread ground that he’s covered before,” Wayne Kramer, the guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit rock band the MC5, told me.

"In advancing the Belt and Road, we will not re-tread the old path of games between foes. Instead we will create a new model of co-operation and mutual benefit," Mr Xi said at the opening of the two-day summit.

But, as an action-fantasy re-tread with no story to speak of and wooden lead performances, it’s not likely to do particularly strong business in the United States, which will once again put China on the back foot, in terms of proving its cultural throw-weight.

The third “Bye, Bye, Bernie” argument comes, ironically, from penitent veterans of the old and new lefts of the 1930s and ’60s who experience Bernie a re-tread and embarrassing reminder of youthful anti-capitalist, anti-institutional ranting that they they outgrew long ago.