In section 59, we read of the denuding of every disposition until all is common and average, of the era of complete unquestionableness, of the new bewitchery as the dominance of machination, and of humans falling prey to the hunt for lived experience. From this vantage we look at several aspects of liberalism: the bias toward lived experience as authority and aesthetics, the either/or trap between validating and not validating children’s feelings, the wishful thinking and oppressive fantasies of feminist witch culture, and more.

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