Our book club has been meeting for three years and it's turned into this place where everyone shows up with predetermined takes on everything we read, like we're all performing intellectual sophistication instead of actually being changed by what we encounter. I miss the early days when we didn't know what we thought yet.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to appear thoughtful and well-read has replaced the vulnerability of genuine intellectual discovery, turning shared learning into a display of existing knowledge.
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