🎧 Field Note 3.2 — All the King’s Candy

What do we swallow when we crave certainty, and who’s feeding it to us?

In this episode of No Shortcuts to Now: childhood sweetness and modern certainty; gum scraped from the sidewalk; Sunday school lessons and post-truth prophets; how a sour little candy foretold an empire of outrage.

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