We read through section 52 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and hear about the transition from the Christian dogma of “created being” to the liberal dogma of “objectivity and machination” and the need for the future ones to experience the abandonment by being as the basic occurrence of our history by remembering it in its long, hidden history, not just in the here and now. Our post-reading discussion then touches on Socrates as an anti-philosophic identitarian, the need to build a firewall against identity when identifying identity in order to discover truth, and an analysis of Trump’s “don’t tell us what we’re going to feel” statement to Zelensky as a ground-breaking moment of emancipation from liberalism’s essentialist tactic of emotional projection as thought control.

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