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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant
Description: For most Americans, the driving force in their personal and public life is a desire to attain the “good life”. But what if our attachment to that desire is the very thing holding us back? Lauren Berlant is a theorist and English professor at the University of Chicago and the author of “Cruel Optimism” a book about when you're attached to forms of life that fundamentally get in the way of the attachment you brought to them. Berlant has been writing about finding attachment and belonging in America her entire career. But she says the Presidency of Donald Tr...