Episode 54: Calculation, Speed, and the Massive

In section 58 we dive into Heidegger’s exegesis on the three ways the abandonment by being cloaks itself – in calculation as a “basic law of comportent,” in speed as “the inability to withstand stillness of concealed growth,” and in the massive as “the most acute opposition to the rare and the unique.” We then contextualize these observations via contemporary liberalism, Internet brain, and the dispositional dichotomy of anxiety vs. stoicism in the development of current political ideologies.

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