We start at section 60 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and read how self-certainty, calculability, unquestionability, machination, and knowing “who we are and what we are supposed to do” contribute to the lack of a sense of plight and the loss of the knowledge that “genuine selfhood occurs in a grounding beyond oneself.” We then discuss liberalism as care-driven slush, story as destructive of infant memory, Trump as the first post-liberal post-conservative politician, and advocacy for uncertainty in the anxiety literature as more identitarian certainty addiction.

Available here or on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.