In section 50 we get a kind of greatest hits list of the main concepts of the book hereto, including the assertion that we live in “the age of a complete absence of questioning and an unwillingness to establish any goals,” with “mediocrity as status symbol.” We then discuss the hyper-politicization of art and its emphasis on lived experience over aesthetics, the “my blue sky” theory of embracing death, and three ill effects of liberalism – guilt as anxiety catalyst, whoops for World War III, and the homelessness (“is not a crime”) problem. And we definitively decide to change the format of the podcast.

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